India, June 24 -- Their primary grouse which compelled them to join the ruling coalition was a lack of funds for carrying out developmental works in their respective constituencies. However, a three-year data accessed from the central government's MPLADS website has revealed that the six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs who recently defected to the rival Shiv Sena had spent between 1.07% and 26.84% of the composite kitty allocated to them over a period of three years to execute government approved schemes and projects.

Each MP gets Rs.5 crore every year under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) from central government, to enable them to recommend developmental work in their constituencies with an emphasis on creating durab...