Pune: The meeting of eight NCP (SP) MPs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Monday reignited speculations over Sharad Pawar’s party joining hands with NDA, while its ally Congress was upset over parleys of the outfit’s members with the top brass of BJP at the Centre and the state.“When the opposition has cornered Prime Minister Modi and home Minister Shah over recent police violence during CJP (Cockroach Janta Party)’s protest at Jantar Mantar, such meetings of opposition members give the wrong message. Ultimately, the leadership of that party will have to decide on which path to follow,” a senior Congress member said.All eight MPs of Sharad Pawar’s party, led by Supriya Sule, met Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi. The meeting was held against the background of NCP (SP) indicating its conditional support to the delimitation bill, expected to be tabled in Parliament. The MPs of Sharad Pawar’s party claimed that they met the Prime Minister to raise issues pertaining to their respective constituencies.Stressing that there was no discussion about the delimitation bill during the meeting, Shirur NCP (SP) MP Amol Kolhe said, “The purpose of the meeting was to seek intervention of the Prime Minister in some of the key issues such as agrarian crisis in the state, long pending Pune-Nashik railway project and infrastructure problems faced by industries.”After Monday’s meeting of NCP MPs with Prime Minister Modi, former chief minister and senior Congress member Prithviraj Chavan said, “I do not know the agenda of such meetings, but apart from such scheduled meetings, some secret meetings also keep happening. Some members of the parties in the govt have told me that they will be attempting to split NCP (SP). I do not know if the meeting had anything to do with it.”Before the meeting of eight Lok Sabha MPs with the Prime Minister, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar met Modi last month. A meeting between Supriya and Shah followed.While these meetings were happening in Delhi, the party’s former state president Jayant Patil held a closed-door meeting with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in the latter’s Mumbai residence. NCP seniors Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare were also present there.Senior Congress member Chavan had earlier claimed that there was growing unease among the NCP (SP) members following six MPs of Shiv Sena (UBT) switching over to Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena.