The BJP today hit back at the Congress following its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said it was due to its "anti-south" mindset the party was getting marginalised in the region, which was once its fortress.
Earlier, the Congress took a dig at Prime Minister Modi and asked him to brush up his knowledge of history after he blamed the party for neglecting Army legend K S Thimayya.
"It is a part of recorded history that the Congress insulted many stalwarts from the south, especially from Karnataka. It is anti-south. This is a reason why it has been getting increasingly marginalised and evicted from power from states in the south despite the region being a fortress for it earlier," BJP spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao said.
Rao also mentioned the manner in which the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister T Anjaiah was removed by Rajiv Gandhi, then a Congress general secretary, in 1982.
"People from Andhra have still not forgotten it," he said.
Old sins of the Congress are now haunting it and people will evict it from power in Karnataka, which is the lone state where it remains a politics force, Rao claimed.