India, June 20 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has offered to resign if party workers have lost faith in him. "I will not run away if you do not have faith in me, I will step down," said Thackeray, weathering a rebellion in his party, where six MPs are in the process of switching to the ruling Shiv Sena. His only condition, he said, is that "a true Sena worker should head the party, not a traitor".

Accompanied by his son and party MP, Aaditya, wife Rashmi and party leaders, Thackeray was addressing thousands of party workers at the 60th anniversary of the Shiv Sena, founded by his father Bal Thackeray, at Shanmukhanand Hall on Friday.

Apologising to voters in the constituencies of the six rebel MPs, he remarked, "You voted in ...