New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's legitimacy has dropped to "one third" and his government is on its "last legs" and could fall any time.

This statement of the opposition party came on Prime Minister Modi's comment in the Rajya Sabha, in which he had said that after the results came, a Congress leader kept beating the drum that there is a "one-third government".

Modi in his reply said, "What can be a bigger truth than that we have completed 10 years, 20 more years are left. One third has been completed, two thirds are still left and hence we are very happy with this prediction." Are." Debate on the motion of thanks on the President's address in the joint sitting of Parliament.

Modi's remarks were an apparent dig at Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who has been referring to the PM as 'one-third PM'.

Reacting to the comments, Congress general secretary Ramesh said, "As always, the 'one third' Prime Minister is distorting. The label of 'one third' does not refer to the tenure of his government. It refers to our A very non-organic Prime Minister.”

"After the tremendous personal, political and moral defeat of June 4, it is his legitimacy and aura that has reduced by a third - and he himself is dependent on the other two N's for his political survival. His government is anyway," Ramesh said. "The final stages and could fall any time," he said in an apparent reference to JD(U)'s Nitish Kumar and TDP's N Chandrababu Naidu.

In his speech in the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Modi said the decision on the 2024 general elections showed that people have rejected propaganda and voted for demonstration. He said that the politics of misleading people has lost.

Modi said that for his party BJP, the Constitution is not just a compilation of articles but its spirit and words are also very important.