Even though Shiv Sena is set to rule Maharashtra finally, the party was in for a major set back today as nearly 400 Shiv Sena workers have joined its former ally, the Bhartiya Janata party.

According to the reports, Shiv Sena workers were upset over party Chief Uddhav Thackeray joining hands with the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form government in Maharashtra.

Ramesh Nadesan, Special Executive officer of the Shiv Sena said that four hundred supporters of the party had joined BJP as they felt cheated when the Shiv Sena shook hands with corrupt and anti-Hindu parties.

Criticising the Sena for joining the MVA “just to form the government”, Nadesan said he was with the party because it had accorded Hindutva agenda its top priority.

As per party leader Ramesh Nair who led his fellow members to join the BJP, he has been an ardent follower of the Hindutva ideology which Shiv Sena used to overtly follow.

“I was working with Shiv Sena for 10 years. We were supporting the Hindutva ideology of Sena. I was given an office to serve people but as Sena has decided to form the government with NCP and Congress, it is not acceptable to us. Now, we all have decided to join BJP”, Nair was quoted as saying.

“No one understands the feelings and sentiments of a supporter who actually works for the party without anything in return. Also, in last the seven years, we were fighting against the NCP and Congress supporters. During elections it is the karyakartas who actually go door-to-door for seeking votes. How do we go back and face the same people whom we have asked to vote for an honest government?” Nadesan said.

Another Sena worker, who joined the BJP, said, “We are not happy with the decision of the Sena chief to join hands with Congress and NCP. We are quitting the party because Sena had quit it’s main agenda, which is Hindutva.”