Priyank Kharge hits back at BJP over father's Modi remark

Bengaluru, Oct 26 (UNI) Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge on Monday mounted a strong defence of his father and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over his controversial remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing the BJP of selective outrage and challenging it to confront its own leaders' past statements. Dismissing the BJP's criticism as an attempt to manufacture controversy, Priyank Kharge argued that his father's remarks were a retort to a heckler at a public function in Patna, where the Congress president was addressing an event marking the 139th birth anniversary of Bihar's first Chief Minister Krishna Singh. Responding to a…