Modi as PM will 'drag' Dawood Ibrahim to India, says Shiv Sena

Mumbai, Aug 18: In a dig at

's speech targeting the Prime Minister on the Independence Day,

said it hoped that the BJP leader, when he takes the top post, would "drag" fugitive gangster

to India and hang him.

"The issues on which Modi criticized the PM, he has to resolve them tomorrow," Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said in an editorial in the party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.

"If Modi gets power like Sardar Patel in Delhi, he will imprison all those who are looting the country. He will drag Hafiz Saeed, Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon from Pakistan and hang them.

"Whether Pakistan has lost its sleep over Modi's speech is only known to Hafiz Saeed, but we have heard that some Congress ministers have certainly ordered for sleeping pills," the Sena said.

The editorial also referred to LK Advani's exception to Modi's criticism of the PM on the Independence Day.

PTI