Not able to replicate groups in Mirror Maker 2 - apache-kafka

Question

Initially, I created a topic named "quickstart-events" and then produced some messages into it, then consumed it from the kafka-console-consumer with consumer group "quickstartGroup" and now I want to replicate the group from source to destination.
When I run describe command to describe the group in the source cluster
~/kafka/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --describe --group quickstartGroup
The output I'm getting is
Consumer group 'quickstartGroup' has no active members.
GROUP TOPIC PARTITION CURRENT-OFFSET LOG-END-OFFSET LAG CONSUMER-ID HOST CLIENT-ID
quickstartGroup quickstart-events 1 9 12 3 - - -
quickstartGroup quickstart-events 0 9 12 3 - - - -
Here, the topic is getting replicated but when I run the command to describe the group in the destination cluster
kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9093 --describe --group quickstartGroup
Getting error as
Error: Consumer group 'quickstartGroup' does not exist
My Mirror Maker 2 properties file contents are:
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# see org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig for more details
# Sample MirrorMaker 2.0 top-level configuration file
# Run with ./bin/connect-mirror-maker.sh connect-mirror-maker.properties
# specify any number of cluster aliases
clusters = A, B
# connection information for each cluster
# This is a comma separated host:port pairs for each cluster
# for e.g. "A_host1:9092, A_host2:9092, A_host3:9092"
A.bootstrap.servers = localhost:9092
B.bootstrap.servers = localhost:9093
# enable and configure individual replication flows
A->B.enabled = true
# regex which defines which topics gets replicated. For eg "foo-.*"
A->B.topics = quickstart-events.*
A->B.groups = quickstartGroup.*
# Setting replication factor of newly created remote topics
replication.factor=2
############################# Internal Topic Settings #############################
# The replication factor for mm2 internal topics "heartbeats", "B.checkpoints.internal" and
# "mm2-offset-syncs.B.internal"
# For anything other than development testing, a value greater than 1 is recommended to ensure availability such as 3.
checkpoints.topic.replication.factor=1
heartbeats.topic.replication.factor=1
offset-syncs.topic.replication.factor=1
# The replication factor for connect internal topics "mm2-configs.B.internal", "mm2-offsets.B.internal" and
# "mm2-status.B.internal"
# For anything other than development testing, a value greater than 1 is recommended to ensure availability such as 3.
offset.storage.replication.factor=1
status.storage.replication.factor=1
config.storage.replication.factor=1
# customize as needed
# replication.policy.separator = _
# sync.topic.acls.enabled = false
# emit.heartbeats.interval.seconds = 5
groups.exclude = ''
replication.policy.class=ch.mawileo.kafka.mm2.PrefixlessReplicationPolicy
P.S: I am using Kafka 2.8