“PM Modi resembles a ‘dangerous snake’, you may believe it’s toxin or not. If you lick it, you’re dead,” Kharge said earlier today throughout a rally in Kalaburagi in poll-bound Karnataka.
Kharge’s strong remark expectedly drew the ire of BJP with different celebration leaders blasting the Congress president.
Karnataka primary minister Basavraj Bommai said that Congress is not able to combat PM Modi politically and this sort of thinking is substantiated of that desperation.
“There is a toxin in the mind of Kharge. It’s a discriminative mind towards PM Modi and BJP. This sort of thinking comes due to the fact that of desperation as they are not able to combat him politically and they are seeing that their ship is sinking… People will teach them a lesson,” Bommai said.
Union minister Anurag Thakur said that the remark made by Kharge was even worse than Sonia Gandhi’s “maut ka saudagar” dig at PM Modi.
“Congress made Mallikarjun Kharge the celebration president however no one considers him that, so he considered providing a declaration which is even worse than that provided by Sonia Gandhi,” Union minister Anurag Thakur said.
BJP leader and Union minister Shobha Karandlaje chastised Kharge for utilizing “such language” regardless of being a senior leader.
“Mallikarjun Kharge is a senior leader and president of Congress. What does he wish to inform the world? PM Narendra Modi is the PM of our nation and the entire world appreciates him and utilizing such language for PM reveals the level to which Congress has actually stooped,” she said, including that Kharge need to apologise to the nation.
Following the enormous outcry, Kharge revealed “unique remorse” over his remarks.
“If my declaration has actually hurt anybody, if it was misinterpreted and distressed anybody, I will express unique remorse for it,” Kharge said.
“We have ideological distinctions. RSS-BJP’s ideology is dangerous. But they compared it to Prime Minister and declared that I commented about him. It was never ever my intent to discuss anyone or hurt anybody,” he clarified once again.
Earlier too, Kharge had actually said that his remarks were not implied for PM Modi. “I never ever said this personally for PM Modi, what I said was their ideology resembles a snake and if you attempt to touch it, your death is specific,” he had actually said.
Kharge has actually taken a number of digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi considering that presuming charge as the Congress president.
Earlier, in February, Kharge had actually trained his weapons on PM Modi, declaring that his conceit is “harmful” for the nation and the democracy.
Later, Kharge took a dig at Modi over the Adani problem, declaring that the Prime Minister is utilizing public money to favour the business owner.
He likewise said that Modi must stop calling himself the anti-corruption crusader after the Prime Minister mocked the opposition celebrations for introducing a “bhrashtachari bachao abhiyan” (save corrupt campaign) versus main companies.
While PM Modi has actually applauded Kharge at public platforms, he has actually frequently buffooned Congress for setting up the Karnataka vetaran as a “push-button control” president.
Watch PM Modi like ‘dangerous snake’…if you lick it, you’re dead: Mallikarjun Kharge in Karnataka