Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray told his party workers on the Shiv Sena Foundation Day on Friday, that he became the CM only because he wanted to end the politics that was played against his party, and resolved to make a shiv sainik the country's prime minister.

He assured the sainiks that he hadn't altered the ideology of the party. "There is less communication between us since I became the CM, but we haven't created a distance between us," he said on Friday after marking a low-key celebration at the Sena Bhavan.