New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- A day after controversy erupted over Congress leaders mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a 'chaiwala', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shehzad Poonawalla has hit back at the party for being unable to stand a "kamdar" Prime Minister, who comes from the Other Backward Community (OBC) and a poor background.

"After Renuka Chowdhury insults Parliament and now Ragini Nayak attacks and mocks PM Modi's Chaiwala background Naamdar Congress cannot stand a Kamdar PM from OBC community who has come from a poor background They mocked his Chaiwala background earlier too. They abused him 150 times. They abused his mother in Bihar," Poonwalla wrote on X on Wednesday.

A few months ago, during Congress' 'Voter Adhikar Yatra'...