A few hours after Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw a “threat” in him, Bharatiya Janata Party took to Twitter and shared a video mocking the statement of the Congress president.

Addressing a press conference, the Congress leader had said, “Narendra Modi has got anger inside of him. He is angry with everybody, not only me. I am a lightning rod for anger, I attract anger. I attract anger from PM Modi because he views me as a threat.”

The official Twitter handle of BJP Karnataka shared a video in which Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi can be seen saying that legendary cricket player Sachin Tendulkar’s legs used to shiver in front of Pak pacer Shoaib Akhtar. The video, then, moves on to the statement given by Rahul Gandhi followed by a laugh from PM Modi.

Rahul Gandhi: PM Modi is afraid of me.

PM Modi:👇 pic.twitter.com/5ZO5eFQwOo

— BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) May 10, 2018

Earlier, after the press conference, Rahul Gandhi had slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not holding any press conference in the last four years.

Rahul Gandhi, in a tweet, wrote, “Enjoyed meeting the regional & national press today in Bengaluru. We had a packed house! I’m sorry not everyone got a chance to ask a question due to the paucity of time”.

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“But, unlike our PM who hasn’t had a press conference in 4 yrs., I will be doing many more of these!,” he added in the tweet.

While talking to the reporters, Rahul Gandhi had said that whenever PM Modi doesn’t want to respond, he tries to distract.

“This election is not about Rahul. I have now learnt to deal with the prime minister. When he can’t respond, he distracts,” Gandhi told reporters in response to a question about Modi’s repeated attacks on him yesterday over his prime ministerial ambition.

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The Congress president, who wrapped up his extensive campaign tour of Karnataka with a press conference, referred to a story about Gautam Buddha to claim the prime minister had “anger” for everybody.

He said once Buddha was abused and shouted at by an angry man while he was seated with a disciple. When the disciple asked Buddha why did he not retaliate, he said the anger belonged to that man, and that since he did not accept the abuse, it went back to that person.

(With agency inputs)