You can count on the Saamna to write tart copy.

Slamming the BJP's silence over its MP Dilip Gandhi's controversial comment supporting tobacco, the Shiv Sena today took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has taken a broom to clean dirt from roads, but who will clean the "garbage spilling out from people's mouths".

The Sena also mocked the MP for backing tobacco consumption, saying he should be awarded a "Nobel prize" for his surprising discovery that tobacco consumption does not lead to cancer.

"For coming up with this surprising discovery that tobacco does not cancer, Dilip Gandhi does not need a doctor. He needs to be given a Nobel Prize. The MP has gone to the next level of discovery and has thereby stunned all those who oppose tobacco," the BJP ally in Maharashtra said in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana'.

"Don't ask him when did he do this discovery and what is the scientific explanation behind his findings. But this man (Gandhi) has done immense service to the tobacco lobby by describing gutka in this way. May be that's why the paan association has welcomed this," it added.