A day after complaining against the lack of coordination in the Maha Vikas Aghadi, and unwarranted statements made about their party high command, Congress leaders met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday, under the stewardship of state affairs in-charge, HK Patil.

Patil said the Congress delegation discussed with Thackeray the matters and views the ministers expressed on Friday. Sources said the ministers had expressed their ire to Patil over Shiv Sena chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut’s repeated suggestions that Sharad Pawar, (president of Nationalist Congress Party), should replace Sonia Gandhi as the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance. They felt that Thackeray should gag Raut because unwarranted statements would unnecessarily create bad blood between the allies that are running the government in a tense situation, compounded by an exponential spike in the COVID-19 cases.