India, June 19 -- Omraje Nimbalkar, one of the six rebel Shiv Sena (UBT) parliamentarians, said on Friday that his association with the opposition was hurting his fight for justice for his murdered father, leaving him with no option but to switch sides.

Nimbalkar was among six of the nine Shiv Sena (UBT) Lok Sabha members, who defied a whip and skipped a meeting of its parliamentary wing on Thursday, as the party appeared set to lose two-thirds of its strength in Parliament's Lower House.

A two-time Lok Sabha member from Maharashtra's Dharashiv (Osmanabad), Nimbalkar said he joined politics to seek justice for his father, Pawanraje Nimbalkar.

Former National Congress Party (NCP) minister Padmasingh Patil, 86, is one of the accused in t...