Mumbai: Firing a fresh salvo ahead of Maharashtra BJP government's trust vote today, Shiv Sena has warned its former ally that it will be disrespecting people's mandate if it takes support of NCP which "nibbled the state coffers like a mouse".

"(Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra) Fadnavis once said that he wants to run the government for the people. But how do you plan to run the government taking support of a party that has been discarded by the people of the state? "Will you win the trust vote taking support of a party which has nibbled at the state coffers like a mouse? Will you take support of a mouse?", the Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana'.