Days ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections, the Congress party on Monday moved the Election Commission (EC) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for comparing the party manifesto with the Muslim League. 

The Prime Minister’s remark came during an election rally in Rajasthan’s Ajmer on April 6. Referring to the Congress’ manifesto, PM Modi termed it a “bundle of lies” and said that every page of the document “reeks of an attempt to break India into pieces”.

Reacting to the remaks, the Congress party said that the Prime Minister was resorting to the “same cliched Hindu-Mulsim” rhetoric since he was scared of the prospect of the BJP struggling to cross the 180-mark in the coming general elections.

Hitting out at the BJP over the PM’s remarks, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that the “ideological ancestors” of the saffron party supported the British and the Muslim League against Indians in the independence struggle.