Congress leader PC Chacko on Saturday raked up a political storm after he called the Gandhi family the 'first family of India' with the BJP accusing the Congress of being feudal.

The former MP and Delhi state in charge in a statement said that the country was obliged to the Gandhi family.

"PM Modi has kind of a negative opinion for the first family of India, the first family of India is truly the first family of India. India is obliged to them, the Prime Minister was speaking about India's adventure in space. The fact is, India is India today because of the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru," Chacko said in an interview.

The BJP was quick to attack the Congress, calling it a testimony of how its leaders expected the Gandhi family to be first priority in everything.

"PC Chacko described the Gandhi family as the first family of the country. This is the Congress mindset and culture of sycophancy which resembles Devkant Barooah who used to say in emergency Indira is India, India is Indira," Union minister Prakash Javadekar said.

The Congress leader also asserted that party president Rahul Gandhi will become the next Prime Minister of India.