Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at PM Modi, asking why the latter identifies himself as Other Backward Class (OBC) when he considers ‘poor’ as the only caste in the country.

“PM Modi said in his speech that poor is the only caste in the country. We all know there is Dalit, adivasi, backward class in the country. If there is only one caste in the country, why does he call himself an OBC?” Gandhi said while addressing a public rally in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur.

The Congress leader also accused the BJP of insulting tribals by referring to them as ‘vanvasi’ instead of ‘adivasi’, and said his party would eliminate the term ‘vanvasi’ from the country.

In another rally in the Kharasia assembly constituency, Gandhi said, “Today, Modi ji has said that there is no caste in the country … Since Modi ji became the PM, he regularly claims that he is OBC but when it comes to helping OBC by conducting caste census, then the PM says that there is no caste.”

Gandhi further said that it is shameful that a PM of this country claims that there is no caste but only poor.