BJP ally Shiv Sena on Tuesday slammed Narendra Modi over his rescue efforts for Gujaratis from flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, terming it as ‘parochial’, and said Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan was ‘large- hearted’ in this mammoth task.
Drawing fire for his ‘Rambo’ act by claiming to have rescued 15,000 marooned Gujaratis on a single day, Modi received flak from Shiv Sena, BJP's oldest ally, which said he should have desisted from such action at a time when he is aspiring to become his party's prime ministerial candidate. ‘When Modi is being cheered as the likely prime ministerial candidate, it is detrimental to take a stance that he only thinks for the people of Gujarat,’ Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.
However, doing a U-turn in the afternoon, the Sena leader sought to downplay the issue, saying he did not mean to criticise Modi and that the editorial targeted the his propaganda machinery.
Drawing fire for his ‘Rambo’ act by claiming to have rescued 15,000 marooned Gujaratis on a single day, Modi received flak from Shiv Sena, BJP's oldest ally, which said he should have desisted from such action at a time when he is aspiring to become his party's prime ministerial candidate. ‘When Modi is being cheered as the likely prime ministerial candidate, it is detrimental to take a stance that he only thinks for the people of Gujarat,’ Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.
However, doing a U-turn in the afternoon, the Sena leader sought to downplay the issue, saying he did not mean to criticise Modi and that the editorial targeted the his propaganda machinery.