India, April 18 -- Several opposition leaders hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's characterisation of the whole bloc as "anti-women", with Congress's Jairam Ramesh calling his address to the nation "partisan".

Ramesh, who is also the Congress communication in-charge, said that a sitting Prime Minister's address to the nation has a sanctity to it and is meant to be a non-partisan address intended to build national resolve and confidence. "This pathetic partisan and polemical attack - a Distress Address rather than a National Address - would have been more appropriate in a Press Conference. But as unhinged as he is by the extraordinary legislative humiliation he suffered in the Lok Sabha last night, the non-grihasthi Prime Minister i...