India, Aug. 18 -- Even after deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde's trip to Delhi where he met prime minister Narendra Modi and union home minister Amit Shah, things don't seem to have gotten much better for him. Shinde skipped not just Tuesday's cabinet meeting but even a dinner hosted by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday night for various dignitaries on the occasion of Independence Day.

Soon after Shinde returned from Delhi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Anil Pawar, former commissioner of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation, who happens to be a relative of Shinde's party colleague and education minister Dada Bhuse. Pawar had been posted in Vasai-Virar civic body by Shinde, who heads the urban development depar...