India, Sept. 6 -- The BJP on Friday slammed the Congress for "comparing" people of Bihar with 'bidis', calling it an "insult to all Biharis", and asked the Opposition to be ready to face its political consequences. The party said the NDA will make it a "very big issue" in the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

This came after the Congress' Kerala unit in a now-deleted post on social media said, "Bidis and Bihar starts with B. Cannot be considered a sin anymore."

Reacting sharply, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad condemned the Kerala Congress' post as "shameful" and said people of Bihar will give a reply to "this insult of Biharis" in the upcoming assembly polls.

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