India, Feb. 7 -- Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday hit back at Rahul Gandhi over the Congress MP's recent allegations about discrepancies in the Maharashtra Assembly election suggesting that "when the same joke is told over and over again, you don't laugh at it."

In a cryptic post shared on X, Fadnavis wrote, "Jab ek hi chutkula baar baar sunaya jaaye, toh uspar hasa nai karte (when the same joke is told over and over again, people do not laugh at it)." Fadnavis also tagged Rahul Gandhi in his post.

Fadnavis dismissed Gandhi's claims as "baseless" and part of a "narrative" being spun ahead of the February 8 Delhi elections, which, according to most exit polls, Congress is about to lose.

Earlier in the day, Gandhi, ...