The Congress on Friday said that its President Rahul Gandhi hugging Prime Minster Narendra Modi inside Lok Sabha was an "unscripted" gesture that took "BJPs breath away".

"What an astonishing performance by Rahul Gandhi. It was a game-changing speech, tearing apart the government's claims and ending with that unscripted hug that has literally taken the BJP's breath away," Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted.