Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today ruled out any post-poll pact with the Bahartiya Janata Party even as he claimed the saffron party, having 'understood its mistake', is eyeing a reconciliation.

Keeping up its diatribe against the BJP, Sena taunted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his 'raincoat' jibe against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and heaped praises on Congress for 'leading the country in the path of development' after independence.

'(BJP president) Amit Shah says it is a friendly match between them (in BMC polls). It only means that they have realised their mistake. They have understood that they have taken wrong steps and it will be difficult for them to fight the anger of Mumbaikars. Thus, they are now trying to get back to us,' Thackeray said in an interview to Sena mouthpiece Saamana.

Shah had last Sunday said there were no differences with Sena and that he hoped its decision to contest the Maharashtra civic polls independently was not going to cause damage to the alliance.

'But why should I compromise with them now? Why should I hug you once I have seen the evil thoughts in your mind? A compromise will never happen. It is not possible. I am firm now. Had I not been firm, I would not have announced that I am carving a new way for my party in future,' he asserted.

Needling the BJP further, an editorial in Saamana hailed the development works done by Congress governments at the Centre and targeted Modi, saying he is not ready to admit the 'chaos' created by demonetisation.

About Modi's 'raincoat' barb against his predecessor Manmohan Singh, it said being in power with the corrupt is also corruption.

'But for the work done by the Congress governments, Modi would be governing a backward nation in Africa,' the Sena publication asserted.

'Even if one believes Congress governed while indulging in corruption, it transformed the nation, which could not even produce a needle before Independence, to one that is at the forefront of economic and industrial growth. The previous rulers have made India what it is today,' the Sena organ said.

Sena also praised the previous Prime Ministers who headed the Congress governments at the Centre, including Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.