NEW DELHI: BJP and its allies on Monday lashed out at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over a viral video purportedly exhibiting his interplay with a distressed farmer in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, calling his conduct “boastful” and unbecoming of a senior neta. BJP additionally criticised Rahul Gandhi over his reported journey overseas, describing him as “an informal politician” and saying it could have been good had the Congress neta visited flood-hit Karnataka and Punjab the place farmers are in misery.The clip from Kalaburagi, which has circulated extensively on social media, captures Kharge’s dialog with a farmer whose crop was broken by the current floods within the area. Slamming Kharge for allegedly chiding a farmer for telling him that he had misplaced the crop on his four-acre farm in Kalaburagi in Congress-governed Karnataka resulting from heavy rains, BJP functionary Ravi Shankar Prasad requested, “What sort of vanity is that this?”Kharge instructed the farmer from his conventional political turf that he himself had suffered damages at his 40-acre farm.Prasad additionally reminded Gandhi that there isn’t any break in public life. “Greatest needs to Rahul Gandhi when he’s on trip. When somebody is an informal politician, it’s certain to occur – ‘Now I’ve labored so much. Let me take a break’. Let me gently remind Rahul Gandhi that there isn’t any break in public life,” Prasad stated. In the meantime, JDS functionary and Union minister H D Kumaraswamy reacted sharply on X, saying, “Revered Mallikarjun Kharge, I used to be deeply dissatisfied by your behaviour in the direction of the farmers. From a senior functionary, I definitely didn’t count on such conduct. If a farmer in misery can’t strategy you and share his ache, then who else ought to he flip to? You’re LoP in Rajya Sabha and the President of the AICC. But, you fully forgot these obligations whereas talking!”