PM Modi accused Congress of "appeasement" politics and insulting Hindu deities during Karnataka idol incident, demanding an apology.

During an election rally in Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress party of "appeasement" politics, citing a recent incident in Karnataka where a Ganesh idol was temporarily placed in a police van during protests following violence at an immersion procession. Modi claimed that Congress insulted Hindu deities and became a "new form of urban Naxal." The BJP criticized the Congress government for compromising the sanctity of the idol and demanded an apology.