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‘Modi ka baap bhi jayega’: Congress chief Kharge loses cool; Hits a New Low

From “poisonous snake” to “terrorist” to Patna: critics say Kharge’s pattern of attacking PM Modi continues. Know what he said on SIR and ballot papers

PGurus Newsdesk

October 25, 2026

“Poisonous Snake” to “Terrorist” to Now This: Kharge’s Long Trail of Abuse Against PM Modi

Critics say the Congress chief has a habit of abusing the Prime Minister first and explaining later

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge lost his composure in Patna on Sunday. When a man in the audience shouted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not going anywhere, Kharge reportedly answered with a crude jibe at the Prime Minister’s late father. This came at a function meant to honour Dr Shri Krishna Singh, Bihar’s first chief minister, on his 139th birth anniversary.

The ugliness did not stop at words. According to reports, Congress workers then assaulted the heckler and threw him out of the hall. The circumstances are not yet clear, but the image is hard to shake: a party that claims to be defending democracy appears to have answered a dissenting voice with force.

For critics, this is a pattern. Kharge once called the Prime Minister a “poisonous snake” and, after criticism from the BJP, clarified that he meant the Prime Minister’s ideology. In April, he referred to Modi as a “terrorist” at a Chennai press conference and later said he meant Modi was “terrorising” the democratic fabric of the country. The BJP has also demanded an apology over alleged remarks about Gujaratis and the RSS and BJP. Each time, the abuse comes first and the explanation comes later.

The same speech also doubled down on the Congress’s election-roll campaign. Kharge demanded that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) be scrapped, that ballot papers return, and that every Assembly election of the past two years be annulled. He called the opposition to SIR a “second war of independence.” He also alleged “vote chori” in West Bengal, Haryana, Bihar and Maharashtra, and urged people to take to the streets.

Critics see a party that cannot accept the verdict of voters. In Bihar, the NDA won 202 seats to the Mahagathbandhan’s 35, yet Kharge asks the country to treat that mandate as stolen. Annulling two years of elections would mean overturning the choices of crores of voters because the Congress did not like the results.

The Election Commission’s position is simple. It says the exercise exists to keep electoral rolls accurate and that eligible voters have opportunities to file claims and objections. An opposition that is confident in its case, critics ask, would use those channels rather than call for governments to be dissolved.

Kharge also repeated that there would be no peace in the country until the “RSS ideology is eliminated,” a line the BJP and its supporters are sure to describe as an attack on a patriotic organisation with millions of volunteers.

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