A day after joining the ruling ally Nationalist Congress Party, senior politician Eknath G. Khadse was accorded a hero's welcome at his home town Muktainagar in Jalgaon here on Saturday, and he vowed to give 'tension' to the BJP.

Hundreds of workers stopped his motorcade at various locations outside the town and within this morning, cheering him, women performing 'aarti and tilak', and others garlanding him or offering bouquets and sweets.