Bengaluru, Aug. 16 -- Actor Prakash Raj on Sunday, August 16, called out Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "dimaagi Naxals" comment made during his Independence Day Speech, claiming that it was a term targeted at people who show dissent.

Raj started his video saying, "Dear friends, Sathiyon. Yesterday, on Independence Day, we witnessed two people working."

He said that one was the "Supreme Leader," referring to Modi, and the other was the cockroaches or "dimaagi (ideological) Naxalites."

According to Raj, Modi "finally accepted" that those who ask questions to the government and show dissent are some form of Naxalites. "After all these years of naming them urban Naxals, desh-virodhis (anti-nationals), keedas (insects), cockroaches, now he...