Chiding Congress and its leaders for feeling "uneasiness" about patriotism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked them to learn it at least from the Mudhol hound dogs of north Karnataka, which have been inducted into the Indian army.
The Prime Minister said there had been such a fall in the party that a Congress leader went to be amid those raising slogans like "Bharat ke tukde honge", giving them blessings.
He was apparently referring to Congress president Rahul Gandhi's visit to the Jawharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus to be with a section of students during the controversy over anti-national slogans being allegedly chanted at the campus.
"When there is discussion about patriotism in our country, when there is a discussion about rashtra bhakti, raashtra geet, Vande mataram, some people are worried," said Modi at an election rally here.
Modi said the country won freedom because of patriotism, and "today if we have started a great campaign of development on the basis of patriotism, Congress and its companions feel a foul smell in patriotism... their health gets upset smelling patriotism."
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