Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday claimed that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jayant Patil didn't allow his colleague Ajit Pawar to address the national convention of their party.

Shinde, who heads the rebel Shiv Sena faction, claimed that Jayant Patil, the president of Maharashtra NCP, wanted to become the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly (after the fall of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in June), but Ajit Pawar used his "power" to keep Patil away.