NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule reacted to the meeting between her father, Sharad Pawar, and Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, calling it a "storm in a teacup". "It was just...a short courtesy meeting...Nothing more than that," she said. Sule dismissed speculation that a section of NCP (SP) was considering joining the NDA, asserting that all eight party MPs remain united.