India, Nov. 18 -- Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde attended a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, even as other ministers of his Shiv Sena stayed away amid tensions over the induction of its four former corporators into the ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The Sena ministers were at the state secretariat but chose not to go to the Cabinet meeting hall. They later raised the induction of the four with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Pratap Sarnaik, one of the ministers, said some rules have to be followed in an alliance, and that was not being done. "We did not like the BJP taking our men into the party. We met Fadnavis and told him about this. He is very supportive. These mistakes are made at the ground level. These will be c...