Patna: Chhath festival may be over on October 28th. But the political war, in the name of the holy festival, is turning into a Mahabharat between the NDA and INDIA bloc in the Bihar battlefield.

A day after Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for enacting a “drama” to take a holy dip in the artificial pond near Yamuna on the occasion of Chhath puja, Modi on Thursday hit back at the Congress for “unsavoury remarks.”

Launching a blistering attack on the principal Opposition party, Modi said while he, as the Prime Minister, was trying his best to get UNESCO heritage status for one of the most revered festival Chhath, the Congress was using words like “drama” and “nautanki” for the auspicious festival where lakhs of women keep ‘nirjala vrat’ (observe fast without water).

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