Mumbai, May 9: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi “not to ridicule” Congress President Rahul Gandhi who announced his name for the country’s top post if his party is voted to power in 2019. In a sharp reaction to Modi’s criticism of Gandhi and terming his statement “sheer arrogance”, the Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member and spokesperson Sanjay Raut said that in a democracy the Congress chief had every right to express his desire to become the PM “It is by that same right that Modi also became the PM, so he should not ridicule anyone else for this. Actually, in 2014, it was expected that (BJP leader) L.K. Advani would play the role of the PM,” Raut said. He said the better option for Modi would be “to defeat Gandhi first if you want to stop him from becoming the PM” and there was no point getting irritated about his stand.