Nana Patole, who recently resigned from Lok Sabha and the BJP, shared stage with Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi on Monday at an election rally in Gandhinagar and fulminated against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming he "abused" senior MPs who had once gone to meet him.

"Once PM Modi called a meeting of MPs from different states at his residence before the winter session of Parliament. When some elderly MPs rose to ask him questions, he abused them and asked them to sit down. He also shouted at me when I asked him about a separate ministry for OBCs," he claimed.