Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday hit out at the BJP for opposing Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray`s directive to state police to keep a record of migrants coming here from other states, claiming the BJP was raking up the `outsider` card with an eye on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and Mumbai civic elections due next year.

Raut in his weekly column `Rokhthok` in the Sena mouthpiece `Saamana` said Thackeray (during a law and order review meeting with top police officials on September 13) did not name any particular state while referring to migrants, "but the BJP declared that the CM meant North Indians".