Maharashtra BJP President Chandrakant Patil criticised the state Congress president Nana Patole on his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that Patole speaks like a drunken village gangster.

According to Chandrakant Patil, Congress' Patole had threatened to beat and insult Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "When this kind of angst came out in public, he pretended that he was not talking about the Prime Minister but about a gangster who was doing rounds in the news. Nana Patole spoke, in the same way, today as the alleged gangster", said Patil. Patil mentioned how Rahul Gandhi had to answer the court when he made a joke of the Prime Minister's last name.