Drawing a parallel between the Lok Sabha polls and a kabaddi match, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the Congress had “caught” Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the “kabaddi match”, and that it was “game over” for the PM. Rahul was speaking at a rally in Himachal Pradesh’s Una. The area falls under Hamirpur Lok Sabha seat, where Congress’s Ram Lal Thakur is contesting against BJP’s three-time MP Anurag Thakur. “Ram Lal Thakur ji told me that he used to be an international kabaddi player. He represented the country, was Himachal Pradesh’s captain. He had a coach whom he listened to. He was a team player. When he played, he represented his entire team and his coach, physically and emotionally,” Rahul said, adding that “a kabaddi match is going on” where on one side is Modi and on the other is the Congress “team”. He said he brought Congress stalwart and former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to the Una rally because he respected Virbhadra, who was his “guru” and taught him a lot. “On the other hand, Modi ji gave two tight slaps to his coach (veteran BJP leader L K) Advani ji. He didn’t even listen to his team of (Union ministers Nitin) Gadkari ji, Arun Jaitley ji, Sushma Swaraj ji, when they warned him against going in the Congress’s side (in the kabaddi match). But Modi ji entered the Congress side and our team caught Modi. Now Modi is on our side of the line,” he said. “Now Narendra Modi ji won’t be released. He’s saying kabaddi-kabaddi-kabaddi-kabaddi. It will go on for 10-15 seconds, after which he will lose his breath,” Rahul said, adding that the game is “khatam” (over).
