On Mallikarjun Kharge's remarks, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh says, "It is deeply distressing. The remarks made yesterday in Patna by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge about Prime Minister Modi’s late father have left me shocked and deeply hurt. What is most shocking about this entire episode is that these comments were not made by some ordinary Congress worker or a youth leader, but by the national president of a party that claims to.