JHARSUGUDA, Feb 8: On Thursday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “misleading” people by claiming to be an OBC while, in reality, he was not born into an Other Backward Class family. On the third and last day of his “Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra” in Odisha, Gandhi made a brief speech here in which he stated that Modi “was born in a family that belonged to the general caste.” “By falsely claiming to be an OBC, Modi ji has been fooling the public. His family was of the Teli caste, which was listed as an OBC during the 2000 Gujarati administration led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Modi ji is therefore not an OBC by birth, the Congress MP claimed.Gandhi further claimed that the prime minister “hugs billionaires” rather than shaking hands with OBCs. The former president of Congress, dressed in an off-white t-shirt, started the yatra anew on Thursday at this location’s Old Bus Stand and proceeded in an open jeep towards Kissan Chowk. Ajoy Kumar, the leader of the AICC, and Sarat Pattnayak, the president of the OPCC, were with him. The yatra will leave Odisha in the afternoon and arrive in Chhattisgarh.
