NEW DELHI: Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday clarified his remarks and said that "if PM Modi is hurt I will personally apologize to him."

Earlier today, Adhir courted controversry after he used an objectionable comparision for PM Modi during the course of his speech on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address.

"A BJP MP compared Swami Vivekananda with PM due to a similarity in their names and put them on same pedestal. This hurts the sentiments of Bengal. That's why I said 'you're provoking me, if you continue I'll say you're comparing Ganga with naali'," the Congress leader said when asked about his remarks.

Under fire, the Bengal Congress leader later blamed his poor Hindi for the choice of words and tried to clarify his remark.

"It is a misunderstanding, I didn't say 'naali', if PM is upset with it I'm sorry. I had no intention to hurt him. If PM is hurt I'll personally apologise to him. My Hindi is not good. By 'naali' I meant channel," he said.

"I got enraged when the BJP member tried to humiliate Swami Vivekananda by comparing him with Prime Minister Modi. Swami Vivekananda's name was Narendranath Datta. He was trying to equate Narendranath Datta with Narendra Modi , which was vehemently opposed by me," the Congress leader said.



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