For Modi, Manipur is not part of India: Rahul Gandhi at Yatra meet

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of chanting the name of Lord Ram for political gains, while ignoring the real issues of the country like the Manipur crisis and joblessness — a frontal jibe that appeared to target BJP’s overdrive over the upcoming consecration of the Ayodhya temple for which the Congress brass has declined the invitation. Hurled at the rally to flag off Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the attacking words on BJP and its mascot provided the ideological contrast with the welfarist-justice agenda of the Gandhi scion’s 6,500 km.