The Shiv Sena has a message for Maharashtra's new chief minister as he takes charge today.  

The Bharatiya Janata Party's former ally cautioned Devendra Fadnavis against taking people for granted and asked him to fulfill the  expectations of the common man. 

"The new government is like a newly-wed woman who initially pleases her mother-in-law. In this case the mother- in-law is the people of Maharashtra. You cannot take people for granted. They have the power to pull your ears when you err," an editorial in Sena mouthpiece Saamana said today. 

This is the first lesson the new government will have to learn, the Sena said amid signs of a rapprochement between the saffron parties, who parted ways on September 25, weeks ahead of the assembly polls, which saw BJP emerging as the single largest party in the state.

The Maharashtra governor had given the BJP 15 days to hold a trust vote. The BJP has 123 seats; it needs 22 more to win the vote. The Sena has 63.

The NCP has offered external support to the BJP, but the latter will be wary to accept or count on it.