New Delhi, March 1 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took a pointed dig a the 'Lutyens' Jamaat' and 'Khan Market Gang', questioning their silence on certain British-era laws,including one in which police could arrest the groom and others if 10 people danced together at a wedding.

"I am surprised by the 'Lutyens' Jamaat' and 'Khan Market Gang' that they have been silent for this many years. The people who are the 'thekedaar' of PIL, those who visit Courts every now and then, why they weren't worried about the Liberty back then," PM Modi said at NXT Conclave 2025 in the national capital.

The Prime Minister pointed out that the Britishers brought the law 150 years ago and it stayed for 75 years after independence. "Even a wedding...