Mumbai, May 23 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday stated that he had been a victim of the raids conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), accusing the probe agency of being a "weapon" of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing a press conference, Raut spoke on the Supreme Court rapping ED over the TASMAC raids in Tamil Nadu.

"What is new here? I am a victim too (of ED). I have been through that, there are several others like me...ED is a weapon of BJP, of PM Modi, of HM Amit Shah. As long as there is ED, there is Modi-Shah and BJP..." Raut said.

Speaking on Rahul Gandhi's question to the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Raut said that there was nothing wrong, asserting that that people of the count...