In an article in the party mouthpiece Saamna, Sena chief Bal Thackeray has a taken on BJP's poster boy, Narendra Modi.
Thackeray said that the Gujarat Chief Minister came to power because of the 2002 Godhra riots.
Thackeray said, ''Modi was benefited by Godhra and the Guajrat riots. It is because of these that he came to power, people of Gujarat began to feel that he is their saviour.''
''Muslims are scared of him. But when power goes to our head, you can't say how a person will behave,'' he added.
Indicating that the Hindu voters in Maharashtra would not take take to Modi's brand of politics, Thackeray wrote that people in Maharashtra are smart and will not accept anybody so easily.
This criticism comes just days after the Shiv Sena objected to a Bharat Ratna for Atal Bihari Vajapayee.
