Praniti Shinde | Photo Credit: BCCL

Mumbai/Solapur: Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the standard of political rhetoric among politicians and ministers has achieved a remarkable low. Congress MLA from Solapur South, Praniti Shinde, reportedly took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by calling him a “dengue mosquito”, stating that “pesticide” had to be sprayed to remove him from power.

Shinde is the daughter of former union home minister and senior Congress leader Sushil Kumar Shinde. While addressing a public rally in Solapur, Shinde reportedly said, "We have a new dengue mosquito in our country, whose name is Modi baba. Everyone is falling sick because of him. So do whatever you can, spray pesticides and throw him out of the power next time."



As per reports, during her speech, the Congress MLA urged voters to make sure that PM Modi was ousted from power in the upcoming elections. Apart from that, Shinde also reportedly referred to local BJP MP Sharad Bansode as a “drunkard”, according to India Today.

She said, "The BJP leaders have not spent a single penny for the development of this district. What the government has given to our district are two leaders who keep fighting amongst themselves and one drunkard MP.” However, in retaliation, BJP leader Bansode ostensibly stooped lower and branded the Congress leader as "someone who wears sleeveless clothes and attends parties”.

As per the report by India Today, Bansode said, "Those who were caught in rave parties in sleeveless clothes have no right to attack me. I know what she does in Mumbai. If I open my mouth she will have no face to show in Solapur. This is the last warning to her.”

Notably, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor also sparked a controversy on Sunday after he made a controversial analogy, comparing PM Narendra Modi to a scorpion. At an event in Bengaluru, Tharoor quoted an unnamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member as saying, “There’s an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to a journalist, that, ‘Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling, you can’t remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal either.”