Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala )[India], April 24 (ANI): Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'mangalsutra’ jibe, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi donated her jewelry during the 1962 India-China war. 

The Congress president questioned whether any such sacrifices have been made by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its sister organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).  

‘What sacrifice has any leader of the BJP-RSS ever made for the nation? They did not even participate in the national movement. For elections, Modi ji is lying to the people that their Mangalsutra shall not be safe. Congress governed this country for 55 years. Has that even happened once? Indira Gandhi donated her jewelry in the 1962 War. Pandit Motilal Nehru and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru donated their home to the freedom movement as Anand Bhawan in Allahabad. Our leaders have lived and sacrificed their life and blood for the nation,’ Kharge posted on X.  

Earlier during the previous week, Prime Minister Modi alleged that the Congress wants to take away the gold and property of people and distribute it among "those having more children". He said those who left the Congress had pointed to the party's manifesto and that the party had gone into the "grasp of urban Naxals." 

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