New Delhi, March 18 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday hit back at the Opposition leaders over their criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address in the Lok Sabha on the MahaKumbh.

Addressing a press conference, Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed that be it Rahul Gandhi or Akhilesh Yadav, several Opposition leaders did not even go to take a holy dip at the MahaKumbh.

"Today, when the Prime Minister commented in the Lok Sabha on this great 'Sanatani' achievement of the nation, they opposed it as well. How far will they go for vote bank politics? This has become their tradition. Condolences for what happened there had already been expressed earlier. Proper compensation and words of sympathy have been conveyed ...