India, March 22 -- NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday met his nephew and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar at a meeting at Pune-based Vasantdada Sugar Institute, drawing sharp remarks from Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut.

Besides the two, the meeting of the governing council of the Vasantdada Sugar Institute, a government-recognized research institute, was attended by NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil and NCP's Dilip Walse Patil.

Raut, whose party is part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance along with NCP (SP) and Congress, said that Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders do not maintain any contact with those who left.

"Everything is going fine between them...We do not even try to have any contact with those who quit the Shiv Sena. The w...