Shiv Sena feels the MNS hurt, even bastion Dadar falls

Shivaji Park is the birthplace of the Shiv Sena, the party headquarters, its strongest bastion. But today, loyal Shiv Sainiks wore a shocked, sombre look. The MNS's Nitin Sardesai had tamed the tiger in its den, defeating both a Sena candidate and a veteran Sena MLA-turned-Congress candidate. Once the results came in, young MNS supporters rode two-wheelers on the streets, shouting slogans cheekily near the Sena Bhavan, and shopkeepers, meeting over endless cups of tea, debated how and why the Sena lost its fortress.

The elders, especially mill workers who still support the Shiv Sena, maintained that the youth had gone the MNS way. "I have always been a Sena loyalist but my son is an MNS supporter. I cannot change his view," said Uday Patil who lives near Sena Bhavan.

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