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BJP minister's 'maharani' retort to Sonia's 'shahenshah' jibe

New Delhi, May 31 

Reacting to Congress President Sonia Gandhi's 'shahenshah' jibe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday launched a counter-attack, saying there was "no place for any maharani too in a democracy".

"I heard and saw on news channels what Sonia Gandhi said about our prime minister. She said this in context of cases pertaining to her son-in-law Robert Vadra. But in a democratic country, a daughter-in-law of a big family too cannot behave like a maharani (empress)," Singh said at a press conference held to showcase his ministry's achievements in the last two years.

The minister, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, also mocked at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for "staging nautanki" by visiting poor people's houses.

"We are living in a time when a leader with a humble background visiting houses of poor people and staying with them does not make news; but the moment a big man does such thing by staging a "nautanki (drama)...," he said.

Earlier, talking to reporters in her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli on Tuesday, the Congress president trained her guns on Modi and said he was a prime minister and not an emperor. 

"Woh pradhanmantri hain, koi shehenshaah nahin ki janata unki saari baatein maane (he is a prime minister and not an emperor that people should be forced to abide by all his diktats)," Gandhi said.