New Delhi: Criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the PM does not talk about core issues and rather brings up Congress, former PM Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan in his speeches. His remark came shortly after Modi's reply in Lok Sabha to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address.

"He talks of Congress, of Jawaharlal Nehru, of Pakistan, etc, but not of core issues," Rahul said. The Congress also described Modi's address in Parliament as one that oscillated between "stand-up comedy" and "rank communalism", and said he should apologise for "misleading" the country by quoting Jawaharlal Nehru "out of context".