Mumbai, Nov. 3 -- Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader and Member of Parliament Sanjay Raut on Tuesday launched a fierce attack on Maharashtra's ruling factions-the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar and the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-claiming that both groups will ultimately be subsumed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Addressing a media briefing here, Raut seized upon a recent high-level meeting between top NCP leaders and union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, claiming that the splinter outfits are not genuine political parties but "artificial forces created by Amit Shah to weaken Maharashtra.""These are not real political parties. Amit Shah created these forc...