On a day his party supported the Congress' Bharat bandh against fuel price rise, MNS chief Raj Thackeray Monday said the current BJP dispensation at the Centre is "worse" than the erstwhile UPA government. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) supported the national shutdown along with other political parties in the state. Addressing reporters in Mumbai, Thackeray also attacked the Shiv Sena which didn't support the bandh ignoring the Congress' request.

"The BJP dispensation at the Centre is worse than previous Congress government. Within this government the Modi-Shah duo (are worse)," he said. Thackeray, the estranged cousin of Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, said the BJP's claim of the 'party with a difference' is false. "It is the habit of the BJP to spread all kind of lies. The Maharashtra government claims that it has dug 1.20 lakh wells (to overcome water shortage) and made the state free of open defecation. These claims are false," he said.