Addressing the last day of the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Odisha, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi sparked a caste controversy when he claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not from the Other Backward Class (OBC) and that he has been “misleading people". He was delivering a speech on Thursday in Odisha’s western town of Jharsuguda.
Gandhi’s statement was quick to draw sharp reactions from the political leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
This comes after Modi’s recent statement in the Parliament where he called himself 'sabse bada OBC' (the biggest OBC) and accused the Congress of indulging in hypocrisy and adopting double standards while dealing with leaders of backward communities.