New Delhi: The Shiv Sena on Saturday slammed the Narendra Modi government for the way it has handled Kashmir and took a dig at the Prime Minister's foreign tours, indicating that BJP chief Amit Shah's attempts to mollify the ally had not succeeded yet.

"The internal security of the country is in tatters... The government will have to be blamed for the violence in Kashmir and for the killings by terrorists during the holy month of Ramazan," Sena mouthpiece Saamna said in an editorial.

"We must maintain the piousness of Ramazan and they must play with our blood, this is the current situation...," it added.

The Sena is the BJP's oldest ally. But it has, of late, been critical of the BJP and the two had even contested against each other in a recent bypoll.

The party has also declared it would snap ties with the BJP and contest the next Lok Sabha and Assembly elections on its own.

Shah had called on Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray early this month in Mumbai and spent over two hours with him. The meeting was seen as an attempt by the BJP national chief to pacify the Sena.

The editorial - titled Naked dance in Kashmir - said the Centre's unilateral ceasefire during Ramazan had failed, as it cited the murders of Shujaat Bukhari, the editor of the newspaper Rising Kashmir, and army jawan Aurangzeb earlier this week.

The editorial targeted Modi, saying: "Your international tours and politics are turning futile. India's security is being bathed in blood every day in the Kashmir Valley."

It referred to the UN report on alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. "The BJP claims the Prime Minister's foreign tours have increased the country's prestige but the Prime Minister's image has been badly hit by the UN report on Kashmir," the editorial said.