The Shiv Sena on Friday sought to downplay the controversy created by NCP chief Sharad Pawar's public reprimand of his grand-nephew Parth Pawar for seeking a CBI probe into actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.

The political storm generated over the public rebuke by Sharad Pawar of his grand-nephew Parth Pawar was "not even a storm in the tea cup", said the ruling Shiv Sena, an ally of the NCP in Maharashtra.