Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of distorting his ‘Shakti’ remark that stirred controversy ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, and said that he was speaking about the power whose mask is none other than the Prime Minister. “Modi ji does not like my words, he always tries to change their meaning by twisting them in some way or the other because he knows that I have spoken a deep truth. The power that I mentioned, the power that we are fighting, it’s mask is none other than Modi ji,” the Congress leader posted on X.
Rahul Gandhi, in his comments made on Sunday in Maharashtra, had raised concerns about the operation of Electronic Voting Machines, to emphasize the Opposition’s struggle against the might of the state. “There is a word ‘Shakti’ (might) in Hinduism.