A furious Prime Minister Narendra Modi came out all guns blazing at the Congress at an election rally in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur on Saturday. PM Modi came down hard on Congress for dragging his mother's name in politics and challenged the main Opposition party to contest him rather than stooping to such a low level. PM Modi's mother, Hiraba, is a nonagenarian.
" Jab mudde nahi hote, kusanskar bhare hote hain, ahankar saatven aasmaan par hota hai, tab jaakar kisi ki maa ko gaali dene ki himmat aati hai...Azadi ke baad jisne itne saal raaj kiya, us party ke jimmewar log Modi ke saath bhidne ke bajaye, Modi ki maa ko gaali de rahe hain (When they failed to challenge me, and didn't get any issue to rake up in the polls, they have now started to abuse my old mother)" PM Modi thundered at the rally triggering a huge applause from the crowd.
"Aapki 4 peedhi, chaiwaale ke 4 saal. Hum desh ko kahan se kahan pahucha diye uski charcha karne ko tayyar nahi hain. Aapne dekha hoga mohalle mein jab ladai hoti hai aur satya uske paksh mein na ho to ladai ke andar wo mudde chhodkar ke seedha teri maa meri maa par aa jata hai (Compare your four generations with the work done by a chaiwala in four years. They are not ready to discuss the difference)" he went on to add.
Modi, in an apparent dig at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, said 125 crore people of the country were the 'high-command' of his government, which was 'not remote-controlled by a madam'.
The prime minister asked why the Congress was worried about Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan being called 'mama'.
"They are worried Shivraj is called mama...Why, don't you remember (Ottavio) Quattrocchi mama and Warren Anderson (then chairman of the Union Carbide) mama," he said, referring to the Bofors scandal and the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy.
Congress leader Raj Babbar's remark comparing the rupee's falling value against the US dollar with the age of PM Modi's mother had kicked up a controversy, with the BJP demanding an apology from the opposition party's president Rahul Gandhi.
Babbar made the controversial remark while addressing a rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Thursday. Madhya Pradesh goes to polls on November 28 and results will be declared on December 11.
"(Before becoming the prime minister) Modi used to say that compared to the (US) dollar, the value of the rupee has fallen to a level where it is almost the same as the age of the then Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh)," Babbar, the Uttar Pradesh Congress chief, said.
"Mr Prime Minister, at that time, you had not taken his (Manmohan Singh) name out of respect. Although our tradition does not allow this, we wish to say that now the value of the rupee has fallen to the age of your respected mother," he added.
WATCH: PM Modi slams Congress for dragging his mother's name in politics
