Patna, April 6 -- Bihar Minister Ram Kripal Yadav hit back at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge over his remarks, drawing parallels between Keralam and Gujarat people, saying that a literate scholar calling his own countrymen illiterate will make his party's condition worse than before.

"He is the national president of the Congress Party. He is also an educated scholar and intellectual. Now he is calling the people of his own country illiterate and stupid, and in the future, the condition of the Congress Party will be worse than before," he said.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday sought to make a comparison between people in Keralam and in Gujarat as he attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vija...