BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla took to Twitter to state that Sanjay Raut has now become the Rahul Gandhi of Maharashtra. "[He] has reduced Uddhav Sena to a Congress style party that abuses and insults Babasaheb Ambedkar's Constitutional institutions like ECI by making scurrilous allegations when the verdict goes against them," added Shehzad. "[It is] shameful," he stated.