Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday downplayed the "secret" meeting between Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in Pune a day earlier and said that NCP chief Sharad Pawar may have asked his nephew to join the meeting of the opposition bloc I-N-D-I-A here on August 31 and September 1, reported the PTI.

The NCP president Sharad and the Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar are believed to have met at the residence of a businessman in Pune on Saturday, as per the PTI.