India, Feb. 12 -- The camaraderie between NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde was hard to miss in New Delhi on Tuesday, as Shinde was felicitated by Pawar at a function. Shinde - who split the Shiv Sena and pulled down Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of which Pawar was the architect - and the NCP-SP chief heaped praise on each other.

Shinde was felicitated with an award named after one of the great generals of the Maratha empire, General Mahadji Shinde, in the presence of Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, a descendant of the 18th century general.

Speaking at the event, Eknath Shinde, chief of the Shiv Sena, said Pawar had never bowled him a googly and hoped he wouldn't in the future.

The bonhomie c...