Mumbai, July 4 -- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the BJP leadership and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, accusing the party of "arrogance" and alleging that Fadnavis was shielding colleagues who made insensitive remarks.

In a post on X addressed to Fadnavis, Thackeray said the BJP's central leadership had "grown arrogant with power" and questioned whether that attitude had spread to the Maharashtra unit under Fadnavis.

"People in the BJP's central leadership have grown arrogant with power--this is what folks are openly saying from east, west, north, and south India. The central leaders have been acting however they please, and that anger has been simmering in people's hearts-...