‘Will Modi Hang Himself If Cong Wins 40 Seats?’ Asks Kharge

Mallikarjun Kharge told the rally, “He keeps speaking against Congress and claims the party did not do anything.”

Stoking a controversy, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday, 12 May, asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi would hang himself at Vijay Chowk in Delhi if his prediction of the opposition party getting less than 40 seats in Lok Sabha polls is proven wrong.

Addressing a rally in support of Subash Rathod, the Congress candidate for the Chincholi Assembly bypoll in Karnataka, Kharge said, "It is you the people sitting here who are going to write the future and fate of this country, it is in your hands to write the fate of Subash and ours, not it their (BJP/Modi) hands."