India, May 6 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday lambasted PM Narendra Modi and the BJP on a host of issues from the party's giving a religious spin to the issue of wealth redistribution to its deliberate splitting of opposition parties to its taking corrupt opposition leaders into its fold and still claiming to fight corruption. Thackeray was addressing a rally for his Thane Lok Sabha constituency candidate MP Rajan Vichare at Airoli.

Claiming that Modi was fear-mongering by claiming that "properties will be distributed to those who have more children" (read Muslims), Thackeray said: "What does Modi have to do with who has how many children?" Linking the statement to defections to the BJP by prominent opposition leaders,...