Modi, BJP call Agarwal’s remark as anti-poor

BJP led by its prime ministirial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on senior Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal after he mocked Modi’s credentials for leading the country saying a tea-seller can not make a good prime minister. Modi, who used to sell tea in childhood, said the statement from the leader of a Congress ally had nothing to do with him but showed their anti-poor mentality.

‘The question is not about Modi. It is about how people born in rich families, people who have spent their life like royalties are mocking the poor and that is why they are using such language,’ Modi said at a rally in Durg in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.