The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (SP) general secretary Rohit Pawar on Thursday claimed the BJP was trying to break its own allies Shiv Sena and the NCP in Maharashtra by inducting their leaders, reported the PTI.

The Opposition party MLA alleged that the BJP, heading the Mahayuti government in the state, has launched "Operation Lotus Part 2" to lure leaders from the Shiv Sena and the NCP, and bring them into its fold.