Senior Maharashtra leader Eknath Khadse, who quit the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday, made a grand entry by helicopter into Mumbai and as he prepares to join the ruling coalition partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), hinted at dropping a "political bomb" on his former party.

Accompanied by wife Manda and daughter Rohini Khadse-Khevalkar, he was lustily cheered and welcomed by a large group of his supporters, some even waving NCP flags, when he alighted from a private chopper this afternoon, flying in from Jalgaon and then heading for his Mumbai residence.