Prime Minister Narendra Modi is upset with his minister Venkaiah Naidu for his comments that the PM is God's gift to the nation. Soon after the Union Cabinet meeting ended today, Modi told senior Union Ministers that Naidu's comparison "was avoidable". Ministers who heard this quip pointed out that Modi does not like eulogies.

RSS leaders have also expressed displeasure over Naidu's remarks and is believed to have told the BJP leadership not to encourage "individual worship" as "organisation" is supreme.


While moving the political resolution at the party's National Executive on Sunday, Naidu described Prime Minister Modi as "God's gift for India" and a "messiah of poor" who "inherited challenges in each and every sector", but was "steering clear of them".

Naidu's remarks, however, were not part of the political resolution that was adopted at the National Executive, and released later.