Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders were seen reaching `Matoshree`- the residence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday. The development comes two days after Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) joined the CM Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government.  

On Sunday, senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar had led a vertical split in the party to become deputy chief minister in the one-year-old Shiv Sena-BJP government, shocking his uncle Sharad Pawar, who founded the outfit 24 years ago after quitting the Congress. Besides Ajit Pawar, eight other NCP MLAs, including Chhagan Bhujbal and Hasan Mushrif, were sworn in as ministers in the Shinde cabinet.