Raj Babbar appropriated Modi's mother when he wanted to attack Modi on the falling rupee value as against the dollar. (File photo: PTI)

The political slugfest between the Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the run up to the general election next year, has reached a new low with the leaders of both parties dragging each others' kin into their election rallies.

First it was senior Congress leader Raj Babbar appropriating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother to settle scores with his party, then it was Modi himself who said the grand old party was abusing his mother because they cannot fight him.

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And now it is a former Cabinet minister who has apparently asked the prime minister the name of his father.

A video that has since gone viral purportedly shows former Union minister Vilasrao Muttemwar comparing the lineage of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and PM Modi, citing "the world knows who the father of Rahul Gandhi was, who the grandmother of Rahul Gandhi was, but nobody knows the name of Modi's father."

Shameful statement by Congress leader and former Central Minister Vilasrao Muttemwar. He says that the world knows past generations of Rahul Gandhi but no one knows who Modi’s father was! pic.twitter.com/B5liAzpTZU Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) November 25, 2018



"Even before Rahul Gandhi ventured into politics, people knew his five generations. People knew who his father was -- Rajiv Gandhi, who his grandmother was -- Indira Gandhi, who his great grandfather was -- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. But this Narendra [Modi]! Nobody knows who his father was, till date," he is seen saying in the video tweeted by Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP's national information and technology cell.

This has come in the wake of several rhetorical exchanges between the two largest political parties in the nation, mostly aimed at the family history of the members of the parties. While the BJP believes Rahul Gandhi doesn't deserve to be at the position he has acquired because of his surname 'Gandhi', Congress says he is the rightful heir to the party's, and most importantly, family's legacy.

The BJP has, as a matter of fact, always boasted about PM Modi's humble beginnings.

This difference in opinion has led to the parties indulging in a contest that spares no one, not even PM Modi's 98-year-old mother.

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Raj Babbar appropriated her when he wanted to attack Modi on the falling rupee value as against the dollar.

The rupee has seen a continued fall against the US dollar this year. It settled at a little over the 70-mark this week.

"Modi used to compare the rupee's value with the former prime minister's [Manmohan Singh] age and said the rupee had fallen so much that it was nearing his age. Pradhan mantri mahoday, apne toh izzat se naam nahi liya. Humaare sanskaar yeh nahin kehte. Hum toh yeh kehna chahenge ki rupaiya aapki pujaneeye mata ji ki umr ke kareeb neeche girna shuru ho gaya hai aaj kal [Prime Minister ji, you didn't take his name with respect, but our culture doesn't allow that. We will only say that the value of rupee is now inching closer to your mother's age]," Babbar had said, during a rally.

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