Kharge chides farmer hit by flood, BJP says conduct ‘boastful’ | India News

NEW DELHI: BJP and its allies on Monday lashed out at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over a viral video purportedly displaying his interplay with a distressed farmer in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, calling his conduct “arrogant” and unbecoming of a senior neta. BJP additionally criticised Rahul Gandhi over his reported journey overseas, describing him as “a casual politician” and saying it could have been good had the Congress neta visited flood-hit Karnataka and Punjab the place farmers are in misery.The clip from Kalaburagi, which has circulated broadly on social media, captures Kharge’s dialog with a farmer whose crop was broken by the latest floods within the area. Slamming Kharge for allegedly chiding a farmer for telling him that he had misplaced the crop on his four-acre farm in Kalaburagi in Congress-governed Karnataka as a consequence of heavy rains, BJP functionary Ravi Shankar Prasad requested, “What kind of arrogance is this?”Kharge instructed the farmer from his conventional political turf that he himself had suffered damages at his 40-acre farm.Prasad additionally reminded Gandhi that there isn’t a break in public life. “Best wishes to Rahul Gandhi when he is on vacation. When someone is a casual politician, it is bound to happen – ‘Now I have worked a lot. Let me take a break’. Let me gently remind Rahul Gandhi that there is no break in public life,” Prasad stated. Meanwhile, JDS functionary and Union minister H D Kumaraswamy reacted sharply on X, saying, “Respected Mallikarjun Kharge, I was deeply disappointed by your behaviour towards the farmers. From a senior functionary, I certainly did not expect such conduct. If a farmer in distress cannot approach you and share his pain, then who else should he turn to? You are LoP in Rajya Sabha and the President of the AICC. Yet, you completely forgot these responsibilities while speaking!”