Former BJP minister Pankaja Munde on Thursday launched a frontal attack on her detractors in the party. Her primary target was former CM Devendra Fadnavis, who she did not name directly, but made several references hinting at it. Another party leader, Eknath Khadse, who is equally irked because of his daughter's defeat in the Vidhan Sabha polls, alleged that some BJP leaders had conspired to ensure that his daughter Rohini and Munde lost, adding that a situation was being created to force his exit from the party.

Munde said she wouldn't quit the party that her father had helped expand, but added that the party was free to take a decision in her regard. "The party that was released by her father and other senior leaders of the past from the clutches of a handful of people, was made a party of the masses. Sadly, a handful of people control the party again," she said.