LUCKNOW, Sept. 10 -- Congress MP Rahul Gandhi faced a protest by Uttar Pradesh minister of state (independent charge) for horticulture Dinesh Pratap Singh on the first day of his visit to his Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency on Wednesday.

Staging a sit-in with dozens of supporters and BJP workers on the Lucknow-Prayagraj highway at Harchandpur, Singh demanded an apology from the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha over remarks made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother at a political event attended by Gandhi in Bihar recently.

"Rahul has a mother, he should respect others' mothers. PM's mother was insulted from the stage where Rahul was present, but he never said that his workers did something wrong," Singh said.

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