Prime Minister Narendra Modi had condoled the death of noted danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai and wrote a letter to her son Kartikeya Sarabhai expressing his grief over her demise, a a Bharatiya Janata Party leader said on Friday.

Earlier in the day, danseuse Mallika Sarabhai hit out at the prime minister, claiming that he had not paid tributes to her mother Mrinalini on her death, and said that this showed his 'hate' mentality.

Veteran danseuse and Padma awardee Sarabhai, the exponent of classical dance forms who used her art to highlight the problems faced by modern society, had died in Ahmadabad yesterday due to age-related problems. Sarabhai died at the age of 97.

The classical dancer-turned-activist, who had fought 2009 Lok Sabha elections against veteran BJP leader L K Advani from Gandhinagar constituency as an Independent candidate but lost, vented her ire on Modi as he has so far not condoled the death of her mother, who also hailed from Gujarat.

'My dear prime minister, you hate my politics and I hate yours. That has nothing to do with what Mrinalini Sarabhai did to promote the culture of this country and to the world over sixty years,' Mallika wrote in a Facebook post.

'She blazed a trailer for our culture in the world. That her death sees no word from you shows your mentality. How ever much you hate me, as our prime minister it behoves you to recognise her contribution. You have not. Shame on you,' she said in the post.