India, May 18 -- Amid upheaval within the party over internal factionalism, NCP leader Parth Pawar met chief minister Devendra Fadnavis late on Saturday. While Fadnavis claimed that the two discussed a couple of administrative and political issues, leaders within the NCP believe that the BJP leadership conveyed its displeasure about the party's internal differences spilling into the open and urged it to take corrective measures.

The meeting came against the backdrop of the NCP omitting the designations of national working president, Praful Patel, and state party chief, Sunil Tatkare, from the NCP's national working committee list submitted to the Election Commission. Although deputy chief minister and party president Sunetra Pawar termed...