Raids by the Income Tax department on film personalities like Anurag Kashyap and Tapsee Pannu were part of the Centre's political vendetta against people who dared to speak out, the Shiv Sena said on Friday.

In an editorial in its mouthpiece ''Saamana'', the erstwhile ally of the BJP questioned if financial transactions of film personalities who openly support the government at the Centre were clean and transparent.