India, Feb. 2 -- Rubbishing claims made by some leaders of the NCP (SP), including Sharad Pawar, regarding talks of merger with the other NCP faction headed by the late Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash earlier in the week, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that had any such pact been on the table, it would surely have been discussed with him and the BJP.

"The NCP takes its own decisions. But had any such discussion taken place, Ajitdada would surely have informed me about it. The party is in power with us as part of Mahayuti," Fadnavis said while speaking to reporters at his official residence, Varsha.

The deceased leader would share almost everything with him, Fadnavis claimed.

"Even a day before his fateful acciden...