Ahmedabad:

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has hit out at Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for discussing the issue of bringing back underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India in public.

"Is this matter supposed to be discussed on a public forum like the press. Did the US conduct a press conference before they were planning to attack bin Laden? I feel ashamed that our Home Minister does not have the minimum maturity and is making such statements," Modi said in an interview to Gujarati TV news channel Sandesh News.

He also compared the matter with the killing of Osama bin Laden by the US saying, “Did the US held a press conference before carrying out the Abbottabad raid."

Shinde had recently made a statement to bring back Dawood to India. Earlier this year, he has said that the US and India were making attempts to bring Dawood back.

"We're working closely with the FBI and trying our best to bring Dawood back home," Shinde had said.