New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya on Monday condemned Congress leader Pawan Khera's "Gautam Das" comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that the grand old party has lowered its level of politics.

While talking to ANI, Malviya said, "Congress has further lowered the level of politics by making such remarks against the PM."

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"The kind of comment Congress has made about Prime Minister Modi's father is highly condemnable," Malviya added.

"This is not the first time that Congress has made a personal attack on the Prime Minister. Congress has been continuously attacking his caste, family status, and background," he stated.

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"But today the way his father who has nothing to do with politics is being dragged in such a manner is condemnable, the Congress has further lowered the level of politics," he further stated.

"The popularity of the Prime Minister is due to the fact that he comes from a simple family and is sitting at the top today, which the Congress cannot digest, so this type of attack is done on him continuously. Congress should avoid this type of politics," he added.

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit out at Congress leader Pawan Khera for "mocking" the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that of his father in relation to the opposition party's allegations on the Adani issue.

Addressing a press conference on February 17, Khera attacked the government over the Hindenburg-Adani row.

Khera said when a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) could be set up by former Prime Ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, "what is the problem of Narendra Gautamdas, sorry....Narendra Damodardas Modi".

He is seen in the video asking if the PM's name has "Gautamdas" or Damodardas and is told the correct name.

"Name is Damodardas but deeds are of Gautamdas," Khera said. With a furore over his remarks, Khera later said in a tweet that he got confused.

"I genuinely got confused whether it is Damodardas or Gautam Das...," Khera had said in his tweet on February 17.

BJP leader Amit Malviya hit out at Khera on Monday and said in a tweet that Congress has repeatedly targeted PM Modi for his humble origins and now they haven't even spared his dead father.

"The Congress has repeatedly targeted PM Modi for his humble origins and now they haven't even spared his dead father, who had nothing to do with politics... Congress's deep-seated sense of entitlement and disdain for a self-made man doesn't sit well with an aspirational India," said Malviya, in charge of BJP's National Information & Technology Department.

Congress has been attacking the government daily over the Hindenburg-Adani row. Congress and some other opposition parties have been pressing for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Hindenburg-Adani row. The party has accused the government of "running away from the demand".

The US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research, in its report on January 24, raised concerns about shares of Adani group companies having a possibility of declining from their current levels owing to high valuations, "brazen stock manipulation" and "accounting fraud" among others.

The Adani Group had attacked Hindenburg as "an unethical short seller" and stated that the report by the New York-based entity was "nothing but a lie".

Adani Group on January 29, in a long 413-page report, said the recent report by Hindenburg Research was not an attack on any specific company but a "calculated attack" on India, its growth story, and ambitions.

Home Minister Amit Shah had earlier said that BJP has nothing "to hide or be afraid of " in the Hindenburg-Adani row. (ANI)

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