India, Aug. 18 -- Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) parliamentarian Sanjay Kumar Jha on Monday attacked the Congress for "attempting to appropriate" socialist icon and the late former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur's legacy. He said the Bihar's people recognise only Thakur as the true Jan Nayak or people's hero and would never forgive the Congress for trying to confer the title on its "failed leaders."

"There is only one people's hero who resides in the hearts of Bihar's people, and that is...Karpoori Thakur..," he wrote on X in response to a Congress's post calling Rahul Gandhi Jan Nayak.

The comments came as Gandhi, who has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of resorting to electoral malpractices, is leading a 16-day "Voter Adh...