'Double standards': Tejashwi Yadav hits back in mother 'abuse' row; digs up PM Modi's remarks

NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the mother 'abuse' row after the later tore into RJD and Congress, alleging that his late mother had been "insulted" during Bihar rally. Calling out PM Modi's "double standards", Yadav dug up comments from the past, including the infamous "50 crore girlfriend" and "jersey cow" remarks.

"If Modi calls someone’s mother a "50 crore girlfriend," then bravo, Modi, bravo!" the Bihar leader of opposition said in a post on X. "If Modi refers to the wife of a brave martyred Prime Minister and the mother of the Leader of the Opposition as a "widow" or a "Jersey cow," shameless people will say Modi gave a brilliant speech," he added.


"These are people with double standards. They create distractions to divert attention from vote theft. A mother is a mother," he said.


Yadav also pointed out PM Modi's "DNA" comment made against his now ally and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. He went on to highlight the prime minister's campaigns for rape convict Prajwal Revanna.

"If Modi questions Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s origins by saying his DNA is faulty, meaning his blood is impure and wrong, is that justified? Can JD(U) people clarify if the report from the nails and hair sent to the PMO has come back?" he said.

"If Prime Minister Modi campaigns for Prajwal Revanna, who has been accused of raping women and girls, and appeals for his victory, that’s Modi’s masterstroke," he added.

The accusations went further, charging PM Modi of being "silent" when "Biharis are insulted in Gujarat". "Thousands of farmers died during the farmers’ protests. Farmers and youth are committing suicide, workers walked miles during the lockdown, millions died, yet he didn’t cry. When our soldiers were martyred in Pulwama, Pehalgam, and Galwan Valley, his tears didn’t flow," he continued.

The controversy erupted after a video went viral on social media, purportedly showing unidentified men hurling abuses at PM Modi and his late mother from the stage of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Darbhanga, held along with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.

Reacting to this, PM Modi said, "Mother is our world. Mother is our self-respect. I had not even imagined what happened a few days ago in this tradition-rich Bihar. My mother was abused from the stage of RJD-Congress in Bihar... These abuses are not just an insult to my mother. These are insults to the mothers, sisters and daughters of the country. I know... how bad all of you, every mother of Bihar, felt after seeing and hearing this! I know, as much pain as I have in my heart, the people of Bihar are also in the same pain."

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