Thrissur, March 31 -- Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) leader and politburo member Brinda Karat on Tuesday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has learned from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "divert attention from major issues and tell lies".

She said that Gandhi was making "false allegations" against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala ahead of the assembly polls scheduled to be held on April 9.

"It seems here in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi has only learnt from Modi how to divert attention from major issues and tell lies. One after the other, he is only making false accusations against the LDF government, which nobody here can take seriously. Yesterday, he talked about the gold being taken from Ayyappa....