An "invisible power" in Delhi is trying to reduce the importance of Maharashtra and has "cut down to size" even prominent BJP leaders from the state like Union minister Nitin Gadkari and deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule claimed on Friday, reported news agency PTI.

Several industrial projects were taken out of the state but the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government remained a mute spectator, she said while talking to reporters, reported PTI.