BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's 'illiterate people in Gujarat' remarks, which he made during a rally in Kerala. "The utterances of Mallikarjun Kharge are not only demeaning but shameless and despicable. Were Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Morarji Desai and Vikram Sarabhai illiterate?" Prasad asked. He added that Kharge owed an apology to the country.