BJP called his remarks "a new low in Indian politics" and said he was speaking in "frustration" as the Prime Minister was drawing "praise" after he gave nod to the army to carry out the surgical strikes.

While the comments drew the ire of the ruling party, his words assume significance in the wake of the cross-LoC surgical strikes by the Indian Army on terror launchpads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Training his guns on the family-led Samajwadi Party government in the state, Gandhi said, "Uttar Pradesh will not have a government of just 15 persons. Unki (jawans) aap (PM) dalali kar rahe ho", Rahul Gandhi said at a rally, ahead of the upcming elections in Uttar Pradesh. Hindustan ki sena ne Hindustan ka kaam kiya, aap apna kaam keejiye... "He said that the PM and his party have done the work of dividing the country and making people fight amongst themselves".

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This result brought the national team of South Korea - 4 points and 3 allowed to take place in the league table of group A . "I think that history is important to know, but the most important thing is the present", he said.

His attack comes a few days after he had praised Modi for his first Prime Minister-like action in two years in the context of surgical strikes. "We respected the scales of justice", he added. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other political parties had sharply censured Nirupam for his tweet, even as his own party had washed its hands off any responsibility for the tweet. Which is to increase the salaries of the armed forces in the seventh pay commission, he said.

The Congress also distributed Kisan Maang Patras to farmers in which details of loans and electricity bills are mentioned.

The party, which intends to target both the BJP-led central and the state's Samajwadi Party governments over farmers' plight, plans to hand over almost two crores petitions from them, making demands including that of loan waivers.