In a major jolt to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Unmesh Patil, the BJP MP from Jalgaon in north Maharashtra who failed to get the saffron party ticket for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, joined the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) on Wednesday.

Patil joined the Sena (UBT) at `Matoshree`, the residence of party head and former state chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in suburban Mumbai, along with his followers.