"The act of the Prime Minister's mother going to the bank to exchange old notes is a political stunt and photo op," Congress' Goa spokesperson Jitendra Deshprabhu alleged.
Accompanied by relatives, Modi's mother Hiraba (97) yesterday visited a branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) at Raisan village, and got notes worth Rs 4,500 exchanged.
"She (Hiraba) was accompanied by 10-15 women and was given a direct access to the (bank) counter without waiting (in queue) for it," the Congress leader claimed.
Referring to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's visit to a bank in Delhi for exchanging notes worth Rs 4,000, Deshprabhu said, "Rahul Gandhi stood in a line for two hours and then reached the counter. He had gone to the bank as a common man."
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"Mine and Narendra Modi's styles are different. I won't speak about his mother," he had said in Mumbai last night.
About a video clip purportedly showing Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar sitting with folded hands beside Modi during the latter's recent visit here, Deshprabhu said the Chief Minister has "humiliated" the people of Goa by his behaviour.
"For the first time in independent India, we saw a chief minister who was helplessly trying to hand over a glass of water to the Prime Minister. It was so humiliating that the Chief Minister bowed before the Prime Minister in front of thousands of people," he said.
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