Riding on the Narendra Modi wave, BJP has crossed the century mark in the Assembly polls in Maharashtra, a feat last time achieved by Congress in 1990.

Making deep inroads into Congress and NCP bastions, BJP is set to get over 120 seats this time in the 288-member House, a development that could jolt the Shiv Sena, which was its 'elder brother' in the saffron alliance that collapsed before the polls. In the 1990 Assembly polls, Congress had secured as many as 141 seats.

Since then, no national or regional party had come anywhere near the 100 mark.

Though the party has failed to reach the halfway mark of 144, BJP's record is impressive this time as it is getting nearly three times the seats it secured in 2009 Assembly polls when its tally was 47.

The BJP tally this time is more than the combined figure of 92 seats it had won along with the Shiv Sena in the last polls.

This indicated that the gamble played by the Prime Minister Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah has more than paid off. The two parties had together secured as many as 138 seats in 1995 (BJP-65, Shiv Sena-73) when they had formed the first non-Congress coalition government in the state.