India, April 1 -- Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday dismissed Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut's claim about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's retirement, saying that there is no rule in the party mandating retirement at 75.

Calling Raut's remark a "political stunt," Bawankule rejected the claim that PM Modi visited the RSS headquarters in Nagpur to announce his retirement.

"There is no rule in the BJP that Modi should retire from politics after 75, nor has there been any such decision," he wrote on X, a day after chief minister Devendra Fadnavis rejected Raut's statement.

He pointed out that the Indian Constitution does not impose any age limit for the prime minister's tenure and cited examples of past leaders, ...