Hitting back at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP on Wednesday said that while the Congress leader does photo ops, the Prime Minister believes in doing work.

Questioning the Congress leader over his “double-speak” in criticising the Left in Kerala and “seeking to align” with them in West Bengal, the BJP warned that teaming with one “whose expiry date is over can become poisonous”. While addressing party workers in Kerala, Mr Gandhi accused the PM of being “superficial” and also of undertaking a “poisonous” campaign along with the RSS to create a communal rift.

“We don’t believe in photo ops. You may be happy doing photo ops but our PM believes in doing work. When you talk of helping the poor, it is not done through photo ops and by eating food with them but through schemes aimed at their welfare,” BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh said.

and safeguarding their lives and crops, which you never thought of,” BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh said.

The BJP leader criticised Mr Gandhi for not speaking out against corruption during his visit to Kerala and asked him why he was silent and had “selective amnesia” when he visited states governed by the Congress.