MUMBAI, July 16 -- NCP (SP) insiders said discussions on a merger with the rival NCP have resumed although it is not clear where NCP chief and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar stands on the issue. In light of this, a meeting on Tuesday night at chief minister Devendra Fadnavis's residence, attended by NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil and NCP leaders Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare, has assumed significance. However, Sule claims Jayant Patil met Fadnavis to raise concerns over action taken against the NCP (SP)'s council president in Ishwarpur. Asked why the two NCP leaders were present at such a meeting, she said she had no information on this. "Only the chief minister can reveal the truth. What I do know is that Jayant Patil did not try to hide anything. He entered and exited the chief minister's residence through the front gate, and that too without wearing a hoodie," she said, in a dig at Fadnavis, who used to keep changing his attire when meeting Eknath Shinde while working out the split in the Shiv Sena in 2022. Talk about whether or not the NCP (SP) would align with the BJP-led NDA coalition at the centre has assumed significance as the alliance is making an aggressive attempt to bolster its numbers to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to pass the Delimitation Bill. Only recently, six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs switched to the Shiv Sena, an NDA constituent, and before that, 20 Trinamool Congress MPs announced their defection to the Nationalist Citizen Party of India, which is allied with the NDA, after the Trinamool Congress lost in West Bengal....