Taking a strong exception to Narendra Modi’s comments that the opposition party wants to “dig his grave”, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said there won’t be anyone in this country who wouldn’t want the prime minister’s good health. Calling such statements “strange” and questioning as to whether it is an election issue as it’s being used during the campaigning, she called on the people of the state to ensure this election is not about Modi or any other leader.

Hitting out at the Congress members, who had purportedly raised the ‘Modi teri khabar khudegi’ (Modi your grave will be dug) slogan, the PM had on several occasions during his campaigning in Karnataka asserted that people instead are chanting ‘Modi tera kamal khilega’. Addressing a public meeting here, Vadra said, “This election is not about Modi ji. This election is not about any leader, irrespective of the party they are from. This election is about your Karnataka, it is about your pride, your daily life.” If people of Karnataka fail to realise that this election is about them, the future of their children, an opportunity to save their state and culture, “you will be committing a big mistake”, she said.