Mumbai (PTI): Two of the 12 Lok Sabha members of Shiv Sena were absent at a crucial meeting of the party held here on Saturday to discus the strategy for the July 22 trust vote in Lok Sabha.

Anant Gudhe (Amravati) and Prakash Jadhav (Ramtek) were conspicuous by their absence as the meeting, convened by Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray, got underway at the Thackeray family residence Matoshree in suburban Bandra.

Uddhav has already announced that his party was with NDA on the trust vote issue. However, Sena mouthpiece has stridently supported the nuclear deal, keeping up the suspense on the final stance the saffron party would adopt on the trust vote.