Former Union minister Vilasrao Muttemwar had said that nobody knew the father of Modi.
A day after former Union minister Vilasrao Muttemwar made controversial comments about his lineage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned the Congress party saying its leaders were dragging in his father who passed away 30 years ago.
Campaigning in Rajasthan on Saturday, Muttemwar had said nobody knew the father of Modi. "Who knew you (Modi) before you became the PM. Even now, nobody knows the name of your father, but everybody knows the name of (Congress president) Rahul Gandhi's father," Muttemwar is heard saying in a viral video.
Hitting back at the Congress, Modi said, "Today I saw that after they didn't get anything out after attacking my mother, they dragged in my father who passed away 30 years ago. 100 generations of my family had no connection with politics. A poor small family from a village. Why is that you have dragged in my father? Congress's "naamdaar" says 'even Modi ji talks about my family'."
"I don't say anything about any member of your family. I am talking about former Prime Ministers of this country. I am talking about former leaders of the Congress party," the Prime Minister said at a rally in Vidisha.
Taking a dig at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Modi said there is no leader in the Congress who would speak without an approval from "naamdaar".
Congress leaders have lost their balance, he said.
He said whenever he challenges the Congress to compare 4 generations of its rule and 4 years of a chaiwallah, it troubles them.
Muttemwar's personal attack on the Prime Minister was the latest in the list of controversial comments this election season. Before him, CP Joshi had reportedly said that Modi, BJP MP Uma Bharti and Hindu activist Sadhvi Ritambhara are from "lower castes" and know nothing of Hinduism. He said it is the Brahmins who are learned and know of Hinduism.
After Joshi, it was Raj Babbar who had likened the falling rupee to the age of Modi's mother.
"Before becoming PM, Narendra Modi used to say that the value of the rupee has fallen to a level where it is almost the same as the age of the then-PM (Manmohan Singh). Now, it is inching towards the age of Modi's respected mother," Babbar had said.
The PM's mother, Heeraben Modi, is 98 years old.
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