The Chhindwara MP made the remark while addressing a program of outsourced employees in the district. A video of the incident surfaced on social media on Tuesday.
Amid a bitter falling out with the Samajwadi Party (SP) after the breakdown in seat-sharing talks for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly election, the Congress's Uttar Pradesh unit on Monday took a swipe at SP chief Akhilesh Yadav over the launch of the party's PDA (Pichhde-Dalit-Alpsan
Addressing an event in Indore, Rajnath Singh also hailed the BJP candidate from the Indore-1 assembly constituency for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, Kailash Vijayvargiya and called him Hardik Pandya of the politics of the state.
Reacting to Congress MP Digvijay Singh's remarks amid the "rift" allegation between him and state Congress Chief, Kamal Nath, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan attacked the Congress.
"Kamal Nath and the other leaders of Congress are seasonal Hindus. As soon as the election approaches, they remember Lord Ram... Kamal Nath should answer, Why did his party oppose the Ram Mandir?... Now they want to take advantage of Lord Ram," told Tomar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tops the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) list of 40-star campaigners released by the party on Friday for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled to be held in November.
"Today, for the first time, I will file a nomination from the Narsinghpur district for the State Assembly Elections... I hope the support and blessing I have been receiving from the people of Narsinghpur will continue," MoS Patel told ANI.
The three leaders Asha Dohare and Anita Jain from Ashoknagar and Rakesh Jain from Shivpuri district took the membership of the BJP in the presence of union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in Gwalior on Tuesday.
Speaking about the failure to arrive at a seat-sharing arrangement with Akhilesh Yadav in Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, state Congress president Kamal Nath on Sunday said that he tried his best but could not convince "his people" about the seats the Samajwadi Party chief was demanding.