Hitting out at BJP over the execution of 1993 blasts case convict Yakub Memon, MNS president Raj Thackeray today alleged that the BJP-led governments at the Centre and state wanted "riots to break out in the country".

"Yakub Memon was a terrorist but his hanging episode was converted into a drama by both the Centre and the state government. Looking into the events preceding and following the hanging of this traitor who killed so many people, I feel that both governments only wanted riots to break out in the country," he said.