India, Oct. 26 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged protests across several cities on Monday, October 26, against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's late father. In Patna, BJP workers burnt an effigy of Kharge, while police detained several party leaders during demonstrations in Delhi and Bengaluru.

The protests followed Kharge's remarks at an event in Patna on Sunday marking the 139th birth anniversary of Bihar's first chief minister, Shrikrishna Singh. The Congress president was speaking about alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls when an audience member interrupted him, saying that Modi would not leave office as long as there was...