Days after the Maharashtra local body elections, the Bombay High Court on Monday described the shifting loyalties of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) members in the Ambernath Municipal Council as “globe-trotting” and kept the Thane district collector’s orders recognising and derecognising alliances in abeyance, reported the PTI.

A bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Abhay Mantri directed the collector to hold hearings for all concerned parties — the BJP, Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena — and pass a fresh order after considering their submissions, according to the PTI.