A day after the Lok Sabha election dates was announced, the Shiv Senon Monday said that the party got into an alliance in Maharashtra with the BJP as the country needs to be taken in the right direction.

"If we had not done the alliance, do you think we would not have won? We would have definitely won but we believe that the country needs to be taken in the right direction and this alliance will help in providing resolutions... Going into the alliance our important issue was resolving the farmer's woes and the BJP agreed and is working well on it... Therefore, I got into this alliance as we are both benefiting with the alliance," Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said during a press conference here.