In a sign of growing restlessness in Congress after the humiliating defeat in polls, the party unit from Sindhudurg district, which is a stranglehold of senior minister Narayan Rane, today stayed away from the review meeting convened by Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) in Mumbai.

The meeting was held to take stock of the massive defeat, and according to MPCC sources it was for the first time that a district unit has defied instructions of the state unit.