MNS chief Raj Thackeray said that BJP and Shiv Sena's "failure" to be an effective opposition in Maharashtra is greater than ruling Congress-NCP alliance's "failure" to provide a good government.

"Congress failed...but the opposition failed even more," Raj said at a post-election results press conference when asked why voters did not punish the ruling alliance despite bad performance in the last ten years.

Raj's Maharashtra Navanirman Sena, founded three years ago after he left Shiv Sena, won 13 seats in the assembly elections.

"This is what I had been saying all along. You (Shiv Sena-BJP) had 110 MLAs in the house. You should have acted as a parallel government but you did not get things done," Raj said.

"The opposition parties did not inspire confidence among the voters about their ability to rule", he said.

About Sena and BJP's accusation that MNS dented into their (voters') base, leading to Congress victory, Raj said "How long they would keep whining? They (Sena-BJP) must do introspection. Besides, my candidates have won too." Raj assured his MLAs would show how to be a good opposition and "raise hell" in the assembly.