PATNA, Sept. 2 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he was deeply pained by the hurling of abuses at his mother during Congress' recently concluded 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar, and asserted that although he may forgive RJD and the grand old party but people of the eastern state would never pardon them.

In the PM's first reaction to the controversy over hurling of abuses at his deceased mother during the yatra in Darbhanga recently, he took a dig at the opposition parties, stating that using expletives against his mother was nothing for those who insult 'Mother India', and that they should be punished.

"My late mother had nothing to do with politics, so what was her fault; why was she abused?" he questioned.

The PM was addre...