Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has condemned the action of some Shiv Sainiks of washing a memorial of their party founder Bal Thackeray after former Sainik and current Union minister Narayan Rane visited it to pay tribute.

Rane, who had walked out of the Sena after a bitter fallout in 2005, had visited the memorial in Mumbai's Shivaji Park area on August 19 as part of his 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra', after which some Sainiks washed the spot with 'gomutra' (cow urine) and performed milk 'abhishek' to "purify" it.