New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) Senior Congress leader Mohan Prakash has alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah of “misleading” the country by their “regular and distorted Tweets” claiming that the saffron party has been doing well in local body polls in Maharashtra. “Both PM Modi and Amit Shah are habitual Tweeteratis. Every time local election results come, they keep Tweeting claiming BJP has won. The truth is in the local body elections party symbols are not used,” Mr Prakash, also AICC General Secretary in charge of Maharashtra, told UNI here. Moreover, he said even if the claim is based on their individual leaders’ affiliations to one party or the other; “it would have been in fitness of things, if Modi and Shah also Tweet on BJP’s electoral debacle in Gurdaspur and some local elections like in Nanded in Maharashtra, in Allahabad and an assembly by-poll in Delhi”. “The democratic spirit underlines that if anyone takes credit for victory, he or she should acknowledge defeat and extend compliments to the rival victors. This is not happening,” he said adding “there is lack of this courtesy on the part of BJP leaders”. To a question, he said, “the BJP has suffered serious setback in Nanded and Parbhani and also other places in Maharashtra. A large scale polarisation is happening against PM Modi for the economic despondency he has heralded”. "The BJP hyped a lot about their victories but even in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's adopted village Fetri, the saffron party was humbled," said Mr Prakash. Answering questions, he said, the scale of victory in Nanded in Maharashtra or in Gurdaspur by-poll show that people are “anguished against the Prime Minister”. “In Nanded, we won 73 local body seats out of 81. People have realised their folly of 2014,” he said. To a question, he said, this government has “lost touch with the people and are not concerned about their hardships and miseries”. “Every sector is bleeding and the government is not bothering about the people,” Mr Prakash said and cited the pesticides related incidents in Maharashtra – which has claimed lives in Yavatmal district. UNI DEVN PS 1117