MUMBAI: Upset after being ignored by the BJP during the latest Cabinet reshuffle , the Shiv Sena had promised to react soon, but all it has done is attack the BJP through an edit piece in its mouth piece, Saamna, on Monday.The problem for Sena is that it can’t do nothing more than that. The leadership feels it can’t pull out from the BJP government in the state because the party could split without it remaining in power.Secondly, the hard Hindutva line it has been advocating all these years means that it would have trouble in finding a strong ally in the state. For instance, in the February BMC polls held this year when the Sena fell short of the majority mark, the state Congress leadership had suggested to the party high command to extend support to the Sena in the BMC, however, the Congress brass decided against it because of the Sena’s hardline Hindutva stand.“The Sena is aware that if the BJP remains in power for five years in the state then its very existence would be threatened, however they are unable to do anything about it. They don’t have a good second-rung leadership to counter the BJP and they don’t have an ideology or an ally if they quit the government,”said Yuvraj Mohite, a political analyst.The saffron party has been facing a diminishing clout among the electorate for a while now. The Sena has been calling the BJP’s win in the 2014 parliamentary poll as a ‘lottery’, however in the subsequent assembly elections the BJP almost formed the government on its own in Maharashtra (it fell short by 22 seats) after it broke the alliance with Sena. The Sena, which was once was the bigger alliance partner, was a distant second with 60 seats. In spite of an agrarian distress, the BJP emerged as the single largest party in zilla parishad and municipal council polls held this year.The biggest jolt to the Sena, however, was the BMC elections held early this year. For years the party has been ruling the cash-rich civic body which is one of the richest civic bodies in Asia. The Sena and the BJP contested separately and while the Sena did become the single largest party getting 84 seats the BJP made big in roads by getting 82 seats.A Sena leader said that the party has been really shaken up after the BMC results. “What is worrying is that the Marathi vote which always used to come to us is now going to them,which can be seen that they have done in Marathi dominated areas too,”said a Sena leader.A few of Sena President Uddhav Thackeray’s close aides have been asking him to pull out from the government warning that if the BJP government completes its 5 year term then it would cannibalise the Sena. However, there is a feeling in the leadership that the BJP judging by the recent results may perform even better and the Sena even worse.