India, Nov. 3 -- Veteran leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Sunday evening and expressed their unhappiness over the leadership style of party chief Sunetra Pawar and her son, Rajya Sabha MP Parth Pawar, exacerbating the ongoing unrest within the party.

Leaders who met Shah included 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. These senior leaders had rallied behind Ajit Pawar when he decided to split the NCP in 2023.

While certain leaders said that there was some talk with the home minister about broaching a merger ...