Having spent the better part of his political career in the Shiv Sena, Narayan Rane has come a long way, leaving two parties and forming his own outfit for a while, before joining hands with the BJP and becoming a Union minister.

Rane (69) began his political career as a ''shakha pramukh'' (local ward chief) in the Sena and rose up the ranks to become chief minister at the end of the Shiv Sena-BJP government's term in 1999.