Kharge’s ‘baap’ remark targeting PM Modi draws BJP backlash, Amit Shah hits out at Congress

The BJP has criticised Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over his “baap” remark directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an event in Bihar's Patna on Sunday. Union home minister Amit Shah accused the Congress of crossing all limits of political decorum by “targeting Modi ji's father”. Other BJP leaders also targeted the Congress chief.

Kharge was attending the 139th birth anniversary celebration of Bihar’s first chief minister, Shri Krishna Singh, when a person in the audience heckled, “Modi kahin nahin jayega” (Modi will not go anywhere).

Kharge responded, “Modi ka baap bhi jayega (Even his father will go).”

Amit Shah attacks Congress over Kharge’s remark

Amit Shah accused the Congress of repeatedly using abusive language against the Prime Minister and his family. On X, Shah said Kharge had “torn apart all norms of decorum by making an indecent remark about Modi ji's father in Patna."

“This is not the first time that the Congress party has used abusive language against Modi ji or his family. At times, they have hurled insults at his revered mother, at times called him 'merchant of death,' and at times mocked his poverty by calling him 'chaiwala,'” he alleged.

“Under Rahul Gandhi's leadership, the Congress party keeps crossing the limits of indecency every day,” Shah said.