Raghav Chadha slammed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday for his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chadha called the comments shameful and arrogant. Kharge used the word "baap" while speaking in Patna on Sunday. The BJP started a nationwide protest to condemn the insult against the Prime Minister today.

As the Bharatiya Janata Party launches a nationwide protest over Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rajya Sabha MP and new BJP leader Raghav Chadha has also condemned the incident.

Taking to X on Monday, the former AAP MP hit out at Kharge, stating that the Rajya Sabha leader's remarks for PM Modi were a "disregard for public decency and the people's mandate." Track LIVE updates here

"Strongly condemn these remarks. Insulting the Hon'ble Prime Minister and his late father is not political courage. It is a shameful and arrogant disregard for public decency and the people's mandate. It exposes the mind-set of silver-spoon elite that cannot accept a leader who rose through the democratic process and successively earned the mandate of millions," Chadha wrote on the social media platform.

What did Kharge say?

Speaking at the 139th birth anniversary celebration of Bihar's first chief minister, Shri Krishna Singh, Kharge responded to a heckler who said - "Modi kahin nahin jayega" (Modi will not go anywhere) - by saying "Modi ka baap bhi jayega, baap bhi jayega (Even his father will go)."

The Congress has defended Kharge over the remarks, saying it was in response to heckling during an event in Bihar's Patna on Sunday.

The audience member, who was later identified as a Congress worker from Chhapra, told reporters that he had been mistaken for a BJP worker because of his intervention.

"What I meant was that as long as there is no rebellion in the country, Narendra Modi won't go anywhere," he clarified.

BJP calls for nationwide protest

Kharge's remark drew a lot of backlash from the BJP, with leaders such as Amit Shah, Sambit Patra, Dharmendra Pradhan, Piyush Goyal and many more condemning the remarks. In response to this, the party also called for a nationwide protest on Monday.

The BJP's announcement comes amid an escalating political confrontation over the SIR exercise, with Opposition parties demanding the CEC's resignation and preparing to intensify their protests across Delhi.