New Delhi, June 18 -- Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut has continued his abusive tirade against party rebel MPs who remained absent in the parliamentary party meeting on Thursday amid the speculation that several MPs may break away to join Shiv Sena.

Six of the party's Lok Sabha MPs skipped the parliamentary meeting in New Delhi today. Only Arvind Sawant, Anil Desai, Rajabhau Waje all Lok Sabha MPs and Raut himself were present at today's meeting called by Desai. The remaining Lok Sabha MPs Nagesh Aashtikar, Sanjay Deshmukh, Sanjay Jadhav, Sanjay Dina Patil, Omprakash Rajenimbalkar and Bhausaheb Wakchaure remained absent.

In a press interaction soon after the meeting, Raut again used cuss words to term the absentee MPs as "traitors,...