NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday took a swipe at Mallikarjun Kharge over his ‘won’t die till PM Modi removed from power’ remark made after the Congress president got sick while making a speech on stage in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir.
Kharge was addressing the rally ahead of the third phase of elections in J&K when he started breathing heavily. Fellow Congress workers rushed to the aid of the 82-year-old leader.He was admitted to a hospital in Kathua. Sharing his health update, his son and Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge had said that apart from slightly low blood pressure, he was doing well.
It was later that Kharge had said, “I am turning 83, I am not going to die so early. I will stay alive till PM Modi is removed from power.”
Calling it a bitter display of spite, Shah said that Kharge ‘outperformed himself.’ Taking to X, Shah wrote, “Yesterday, the Congress President Shri Mallikarjun Kharge Ji has outperformed himself, his leaders and his party in being absolutely distasteful and disgraceful in his speech.”
“In a bitter display of spite, he unnecessarily dragged PM Modi into his personal health matters by saying that he would die only after removing PM Modi from power. It just shows how much hate and fear these Congress people have of PM Modi, that they are thinking of him constantly,” said Shah.
While he wished Kharge a long and healthy life, Shah took another jab at the Congress veteran and said ‘may he live to see creation of Viksit Bharat.’ “As for the health of Mr. Kharge Ji, Modi Ji prays, I pray and we all pray that he lives a long, healthy life. May he continue to live for many years and may he live to see the creation of a Viksit Bharat by 2047,” added Shah.