Unleashing a verbal attack on All India Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a venomous snake, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held that insult to the Prime Minister was an insult to India and called upon people not to accept the person who insults India.
“You saw how Mr. Kharge criticised Mr. Modi three days ago. Does it befit Kharge to talk like this at this age? It shows that the Congress is going to be defeated [in the 2023 Assembly elections in the State] and the deposit of his son [Priyank Kharge, the Congress candidate for Chittapur] is going to be forfeited. It shows that just as Mr. Kharge was defeated in the Lok Sabha elections by a huge margin, his son would also be defeated in the Assembly elections by a huge margin by BJP candidate Manikanth Rathod,” Mr. Adityanath said at a public meeting at Wadi in Chittapur constituency, Kalaburagi district.
He further added, “The insult to the Prime Minister would amount to an insult to the nation. Despite being the president of the Congress, Mr. Kharge criticised the PM and it is an insult to India and its 140 crore people. We should not accept a person who insults India.”
