India, May 5 -- The continuous jibe by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by terming him "shezada" (prince) reached a new zenith on Saturday with the latter's sibling and a general secretary in the grand old party, Priyanka Gandhi, calling the PM as "Shehanshah" (monarch). At the LokS Sabha poll rallies in Bihar and Jharkhand, Modi also used the term shehzada along with Rahul for the RJD leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.

"There is a shehzada in Delhi (Rahul) and one in Patna (Tejashwi), both of whom think of the country as their fiefdom (jaagir)."

While addressing a rally in Gujarat, Priyanka called Modi a "Shahanshaah" who lives in a palace but is cut off from the public. It was her first...