The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed the Congress , calling it a party of “comedians and jokers”, and attacked leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday, a day after a stand-up comedian performed mimicry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event of the Congress leader in Madhya Pradesh.
“Asanskari naraz fufa (uncultured disgruntled uncle). The irony writes itself.
The need to come on stage every now and then just to drag Prime Minister Modi ji’s name into cheap political theatre never fails to amaze me,” Goyal said in the post, replying to the political skid video shared by the Congress.
“Congress party has become a party of comedians and Jokers! They are out forever….
RIP,” Rijiju said. “Do you feel absolutely no shame in mocking an elderly mother and the Prime Minister of India?” he asked Gandhi, posting a video of PM Modi in which he is seen asking for a chair to an elderly woman who had come to attend his programme in the past. Maharashtra chief minister and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said: “Rahul Gandhi should leave this party and become a stand-up comedian…Because he’s already rendered his own party jobless, at least as a stand-up comedian, he’ll have some employment.”
In a series of post on X, Union minister Kiren Rijiju slammed the Congress, saying, “I hadn’t imagined that a party which was in power for nearly six decades would turn into such a circus that is busy entertaining their own shrunken supporters. Congress leaders, meanwhile, rejected the BJP’s allegations and defended the programme and the mimicry performance. “…To even think of creating any kind of negative narrative around this is, in a way, a sin. Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel also hit back at the BJP’s criticism. “Everyone’s mother is a mother, not PM Modi’s mother alone. Why are their feelings not hurt when they insult Rahul Gandhi’s mother or other leaders’ mothers?”
Indians are proud that Prime Minister Modi is the “most popular” elected leader of the world, he said. She (Modi’s mother) wasn’t mocked,” Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee chief Jitu Patwari said.
