India, Nov. 2 -- The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) denied any rift in the organisation on Monday after a meeting of some of its senior leaders with Union home minister Amit Shah in the absence of top party leaders Sunetra Pawar and Parth Pawar sparked a buzz.

NCP national working president Praful Patel, Maharashtra unit chief Sunil Tatkare, senior ministers Chhagan Bhujbal and Hasan Mushrif, and senior leaders Dilip Walse Patil and Dhananjay Munde, among others, met Shah late on Sunday.

According to a section of party insiders who did not want to be named, some leaders were not happy with the way the NCP was being managed by Maharashtra deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar and her son, Rajya Sabha member Parth Pawar.

The leaders who ...