India, Sept. 15 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hit out at the Congress and RJD's Mahagathbandhan bloc over the "bidi-Bihar" row and called it an "insult" to the state.

PM Modi said that whenever Bihar progresses, the Congress and the RJD "get busy insulting Bihar".

The prime minister, who was speaking in Purnea, was referring to the now-deleted social media post by the Kerala unit of the Congress, linking "Bihar with bidis". The social media post was a jibe on the GST rationalisation that happened earlier this month.

"Whenever Bihar moves forward, these people get busy insulting Bihar. You must have seen that RJD's ally, the Congress Party, is comparing Bihar to a beedi on social media.. These people hate Bihar so much," PM ...