Union Minister and BJP National President JP Nadda on Wednesday slammed the Congress party over the racist remark against Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy saying that "Batware ka saman is sold in Rahul Gandhi's Mohabbat ki Dukan".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday took a jibe at Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and said that the plane named 'Rahul Baba', which has already crashed 20 times, is bound to crash 21st time in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Maharashtra Congress president, Nana Patole hit out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and said that he should keep his politics in UP only. He said that the people of Maharashtra will never accept 'Batenge to katenge' politics.
The controversy erupted when Patole, campaigning for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Akola on Monday, said "I want to ask, will the OBC people of Akola district vote for the BJP, who are calling you dogs? It is time to make the BJP a dog now; they have become so arrogant."
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar held a review meeting on Tuesday with central observers deployed for the Maharashtra Assembly elections and directed them to be accessible to all candidates and parties without any favouritism. Any complaints in this regard shall be viewed seriously.
Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that as soon as INDIA alliance government is formed in Maharashtra they would try to provide right price to the soybean and cotton farmers.
Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SCP) candidate from Kagal assembly constituency Samarjeet Singh Ghatge who is close confidant of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis expressed confidence that he would win from the constituency and people would vote for change.
BJP MP Anurag Thakur came down heavily on Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole on Tuesday over his alleged "dog" remarks at BJP during a public rally in the run-up to the state assembly elections.
On Monday, while addressing a rally in Moradabad, Akhilesh Yadav took a jibe at CM Yogi Adityanath and said that "people in Delhi are waiting to replace him (Yogi) after the coming Maharashtra elections."
"Do you stop the convoys of Eknath Shinde, Ajit Pawar, Narendra Modi, and Amit Shah and check them?...the way money distribution is happening in Maharashtra, does the Election Commission not see this?" Raut asked.
"PM Modi has changed the direction of politics. Earlier, politics was done by making false promises, now Modi ji has changed it into the politics of development," Vij said.