Dismayed over being denied a ticket by his party, sitting Shiv Sena MLA Shrinivas Vanga, from Palghar district in Maharashtra, said that he has committed a "grave mistake" of siding with CM Eknath Shinde and joining his party, PTI reported.

Shrinivas, the son of late BJP MP Chintaman Vanga, became an MLA following his win in the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections as a candidate of undivided Shiv Sena from the Palghar (Scheduled Tribes) seat. After the Shiv Sena split, Vanga supported Shinde. He was hoping to get renominated from the Palghar seat by the party this time.