New Delhi, April 21 -- Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sambit Patra slammed Rahul Gandhi on Monday for claiming that the Election Commission has been 'compromised.' Patra said this is an "old habit" of the Congress leader to insult the country on foreign soil.

"I have been seeing the media since the morning, there are two important news items, one is Rahul Gandhi's old habit of insulting the country on foreign soil. He has insulted India in the US. This is not a new thing. He has been doing this for a long time," Patra said in Delhi.

Patra said that if the Gandhi family thinks they are on the right side of history by insulting the country abroad, then they are "on the wrong side of the line."

"The person, and his mother, who are out on bail ...