Welcoming him to the party, Thackeray said that "Sawant is a acclaimed adolescence figure and the affair would utilise his talents well".

Thackeray hoped that Sawant would advice fulfil the aspirations of the youth, but did not announce whether he would be accustomed any role in balloter politics.

On his allotment Sawant said that he had been alive a part of the adolescent bearing back the accomplished four years actual closely.

"I can chronicle to them actual calmly and the Shiv Sena offers me the appropriate belvedere to do something for the youth," he said.

To a concern by mediapersons, he denied that he had approved any balloter role, decidedly in appearance of the accessible Maharashtra accumulation elections, or that he would use his affair accreditation to added his able career.

Sawant, built-in in a Dalit ancestors of Mumbai, attempt to civic acclaim afterwards he won the hotly contested "Indian Idol" appearance in 2005.

An accustomed playback singer, Sawant affiliated Shilpa, his adolescence sweetheart and neighbour, in 2007.