PM Modi criticizes Rahul Gandhi's poverty eradication promise at a public rally, calling it a "mockery of the poor".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's pledge to eliminate poverty in India with a single stroke, calling it a "mockery of the poor". Speaking at a public rally in Madhya Pradesh, Modi questioned where the "royal magician" had been for the past 50 years and accused the Congress party of running the government through a "remote" for the past ten years.