Congress leaders Harshwardhan Sapkal and Nana Patole, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) legislator Rohit Pawar, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said PM Modi's speech for mainly focusing on attacking rival parties

Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant criticised an editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana, alleging that its executive editor and MP, Sanjay Raut, often appears confused between his roles as a politician and a journalist