Maharashtra Deputy CMs Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis on Monday night visited `Varsha`, the Chief Minister`s official residence, for a meeting with the CM Eknath Shinde. This development comes amid the ongoing power tussle between rival factions led by Ajit Pawar and his uncle Sharad Pawar.

According to news agency ANI, earlier, on Monday, Union Minister of State for Social Justice, Ramdas Athawale met state minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who was the dissident Nationalist Congress Party leaders to have joined the Eknath Shinde-led government along with Ajit Pawar in the wake of a split down the middle in the party.