India, April 13 -- At a public rally in Boisar, Palghar, on Friday Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling his party "duplicate" Sena. Thackeray said he had inherited the party from his late father Balasaheb Thackeray, which unlike Modi's degree was not "fake".

"Do you think our party is as fake as your educational degree.?" said Thackeray, referring to the controversy over authenticity of the prime minister's degree. "Let me be very clear. Maharashtra will not accept Modi. Only Thackeray and Pawar will make noise here."

Modi had made the statement on Monday in Chandrapur, where he held the state's first poll rally. While he called Uddhav's party a "duplicate Shiv Sena", on Thursday, uni...