In its editorial mouthpiece Saamna, the Shiv Sena today hit out at the Nationalist Congress Party for offering support to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra after the counting for the assembly polls on Sunday.

"Not unusual that the NCP would resort to such opportunism," the editorial said.

The BJP has emerged as the largest party in the 288-member assembly with 122 seats. However, it is still 22 seats short of the magic figure of 145.

The Shiv Sena has won 63, the NCP has 41 and the Congress 42.

On Monday, the stand-off between former allies BJP and Shiv Sena, whose coming together will obviate the need for an outside support from NCP, continued even after Uddhav Thackeray's phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP Chief Amit Shah on Sunday to congratulate them on the party's electoral triumph in Maharashtra and Haryana.