'Desperate' Modi raising caste issue not Priyanka: Congress

Now he has come down to this level,” he said.  Priyanka had hit out at Modi saying he had insulted his martyred father on Amethi's soil and accused the Gujarat chief minister of practising ‘neech rajneeti'.  

Modi earlier today invoked his ‘backward class' status to further mount attack on the Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi.

“As I belong to a socially backward caste, they consider my politics to be of a low level (neech rajneeti),” Modi said in a series of tweets.

The BJP, meanwhile, defended Modi saying Priyanka was “ill-advised” in using the ‘neech' expression.  

“She (Priyanka) doesn't understand the impact it can have, the negative impact it can have especially at the time when this country is trying to extricate itself out of caste politics.