‘Tamasha!’, says Tejashwi on PM Modi touching his mother’s feet

Tejashwi Prasad Yadav reacted after after photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi touching his mother’s feet were widely published in the media.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday after photographs of him touching his mother’s feet were widely published in the media and called it “a tamasha” (drama).

Tejashwi Prasad Yadav reacted sarcastically to photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi touching his mother’s feet. (/HT PHOTO)

“What a tamasha!! I take blessings from my mother everyday while going for campaign. She is never out of my sight while I’m at home and I don’t deliberately keep her hundreds of miles away. It’s just that I don’t try to make it a ‘Media Event’, he tweeted.

Earlier in the morning, photographs tweeted by news agency ANI showed the Prime Minister touching his 99-year-old mother Heeraben Patel’s feet as she blessed him in Ahmedabad. He later went out to vote.

While polling was held for all 26 constituencies in Gujarat, five Lok Sabha seats in Bihar - Supaul, Madhepura, Araria, Khagaria and Jhanjharpur - went to polls in the third phase of general elections on Tuesday.

Tejashwi, who cobble together and Opposition alliance in Bihar to take on the NDA, has lately been hobbled by a family feud with this elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav put up his own candidates in two Lok Sabha seats.

He has also been at pains to explain there is no rift the grand alliance after questions were raised over his absence from Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s rallies in Bihar.