Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘Neelkanth’ and said that the prime minister drinks the poison for the people of India. While speaking to ANI, he said that the PM is building a prosperous and powerful India and now Congress has turned into 'Vishkumbh' (a pot of poison) and they are spreading poison about the prime minister. “Some call him a merchant of death, while others call him a thief. Some even call Modiji a snake”, Chouhan added.
The sadness that Congress suffered has now turned into anger, so it is spreading poison about the prime minister, but he drinks the poison of its people and his country, its development. “Prime Minister Modi is working day and night for the country’s development”, the Madhya Pradesh CM added.
This comes after BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal likened former AICC chief Sonia Gandhi to a 'Vishakanya' (venomous maiden) on Thursday. This was in retaliation to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s 'venomous snake' barb hurled at PM Modi.
"The entire world appreciates Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The US had not given him a visa once upon a time, but today he has emerged as a world leader who receives a red carpet welcome and rubs shoulders with world leaders," Yatnal said at a public meeting on Thursday.
"He (Modi) is compared with a cobra and is called venomous. Is Sonia Gandhi, whom you go dancing about in your party, a Vishakanya. Sonia Gandhi, who ruined the country, works as an agent of China and Pakistan," Yatnal, who is seeking re-election in the May 10 Karnataka elections from Vijayapura charged.
His outburst came after Congress President Kharge likened Modi to a venomous snake on Thursday at a public meeting, which had triggered a row, prompting the BJP to seek an apology from Kharge.
Kharge later sought to clarify his remarks were not aimed at the PM but instead at his party, the BJP.
Reacting to this, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka and its leaders have lost their mental as well as political balance, on Friday.
"Instructed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and supported by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, BJP leader and Modi Ji's personal favourite Basangouda Patil Yatnal has stooped to the lowest by calling UPA chairperson and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi as “Visha Kanye” and “Agent of China and Pakistan”," Surjewala said, as per PTI.
He said it is the “worst kind” of sacrilege and abuse being hurled upon Sonia Gandhi and the Congress leadership at the “instance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai”.
“The BJP leadership and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have made a profession of abusing the Nehru Gandhi Family. PM Modi himself has, in the past, called Sonia Gandhi as “Congress Ki Vidhwa” and even used filthy language like calling her “Jersey Cow”," the AICC general secretary in-charge for Karnataka said.
Such language hurled at Sonia Gandhi, who is the wife of a former prime minister who was martyred for the country, reflects the "absolutely debased and undignified character" of the BJP and its leadership, Surjewala alleged.
The Congress leader claimed that the sad part is that all of this has the “tacit approval of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, J P Nadda and Basavaraj Bommai”.