"I Want To Tell Kharge Ji That...": PM Modi Takes Swipe At Congress Chief
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Mr Kharge was defeated by BJP candidate Umesh Jadhav in Gulbarga by a margin of 95,452 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a swipe at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday and said he can understand his pain as the "empowered and aware" residents of Gulbarga have "closed" his account there, apparently referring to Mr Kharge's first-ever electoral defeat in his career spanning over five decades in 2019.
Mr Kharge was defeated by BJP candidate Umesh Jadhav in Gulbarga by a margin of 95,452 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
On Wednesday, the Congress president said the prime minister is always in election mode and is now targeting even his home constituency of Gulbarga.
"Even when Parliament was in session, he went to my constituency Gulbarga (now known as Kalaburagi). The PM had two meetings, not just one," Mr Kharge said as everybody, including the prime minister, laughed in the Rajya Sabha.
