Row over abuse against PM Modi: BJP-Congress workers clash in Patna — Watch video

NEW DELHI: Party workers of Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress clashed in Patna on Friday as the saffron party staged a protest against alleged abuses hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his mother during a rally at Darbhanga.

In a video shared by news agency ANI, party workers were seen attacking each other with party flags.





BJP MLA Nitin Nabin said, "Every son of Bihar will give a befitting reply to Congress for insulting a mother. We will take revenge for this."


Meanwhile, Congress leader Pawan Khera said that derogatory remarks against the prime minister were made by the BJP "agents" during the Darbhanga rally.
"This remark has been made by their (BJP's) own agent. They just want to create an issue so that they can divert attention from our Yatra. Their theft has been caught, so these people are frustrated," Khera said.
"Find out who that person is who was arrested, whose man he is... The public is watching everything, and the entire country is watching the BJP's goondaism," he added.

DSP law and order Krishna Murari Prasad said that party workers also pelted stones at each other during the clash.

"Stone pelting has occurred. We will conduct a detailed inquiry and if there has been any loss of property, an application will definitely be made at the police station in that regard and an investigation will be conducted," he said.
"As soon as we received information about the incident, we took prompt action. Nearby police stations were also informed and instructed to reach the spot. We will talk to the local police station to find out when they received information about this (the demonstration)," he added.


This comes after a video of some men allegedly hurling abuses at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his mother from the venue of Rahul Gandhi's rally in Bihar went viral.

The video, shared on social media by several accounts, showed unidentified individuals using Hindi slurs against PM Modi from a dais of Rahul Gandhi's rally. The Congress leader is holding a 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar along with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar also condemned the incident and termed it deplorable.

"During the Voter Adhikar Yatra in Darbhanga, the use of highly inappropriate language against the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and his late mother from the platform of Congress and RJD is utterly deplorable, and I condemn it," Nitish wrote on X.

After the video went viral, former Indian Youth Congress National Secretary, Mohd Naushad apologised for the remarks and said that the party would never stoop to such cheap and disgraceful behavior.

He also said that he condemned such remarks made against the Prime Minister but suggested that it is possible that this was done by the opposition or people with "vested interests."

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