Photos: Shiv Sena workers take out symbolic funeral procession, perform last rites of rebel party MLAs in Pune's Hadapsar

Shiv Sena workers from the Hadapsar area of Pune took out a symbolic funeral procession and performed the last rites of the rebel party MLAs at the Amar Dham crematorium.

Yesterday, the loyalists of party president and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray took out a two-wheeler rally in Mumbai and held protests in parts of Pune against the dissident leaders on Sunday.

Sena workers and its local functionaries, led by the Pune city unit president Gajanan Tharkude, staged 'jode maro' (hit with footwear) protests at two places - outside Balgandharva auditorium and in Kothrud - and raised slogans against the rebels.

Meanwhile, senior leaders of Congress and NCP met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday, hours after the Supreme Court kept in abeyance the disqualification proceedings before the Assembly Deputy Speaker till July 11 and sought responses to pleas by rebel MLAs questioning the legality of notices seeking their disqualification.

"We are alliance partners. We will sit together and discuss things," state Congress chief Nana Patole told reporters outside Matoshri bungalow, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence in suburban Bandra, after meeting him late evening.

Congress minister and former CM Ashok Chavan also met Thackeray.

The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in Maharashtra is battling a political crisis that unfolded last week after Sena minister Eknath Shinde went to Surat in Gujarat and from there to Guwahati in Assam with several Sena MLAs.

Both the states are ruled by the BJP.

NCP leaders Dilip Walse Patil and Jayant Patil also met Thackeray on Monday.

(With inputs from agencies)