Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of insulting his “mentor” and senior BJP leader L K Advani.

The Congress chief took to Twitter and shared a video showing how the PM, who earlier used to touch Advani’s feet, ignored him on stage in 2018.

Sharing the video, Rahul Gandhi wrote: “Ekalavya cut off his right thumb because his Guru demanded it.

In the BJP, they cut down their own Gurus. Humiliating Vajpayeeji, Advaniji, Jaswant Singhji and their families is the Prime Minister’s way of protecting Indian culture.”

Ekalavya cut off his right thumb because his Guru demanded it.

In the BJP, they cut down their own Gurus. Humiliating Vajpayeeji, Advaniji, Jaswant Singhji and their families is the Prime Minister’s way of protecting Indian culture. pic.twitter.com/lqUtBtj0t8

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 12, 2018

Earlier on Tuesday, addressing a rally of party workers in Mumbai, Gandhi said Modi did not treat his guru (Advani) with respect even at official functions.

“Everybody knows who is the guru and mentor of Modi — L K Advani. But the Prime Minister doesn’t accord respect to him even at official functions. It is me who follows protocol and I am always with him (Advani) during (such) events,” he said.

“Today I feel very sad for Advani ji. The Congress party has given him more respect than Modi ji has,” he said.

The Congress president said his party fought and defeated Advani in 2004 and 2009 parliamentary elections. “Now it is the Congress and our party’s ideology which give respect to Advani,” Gandhi said.

Gandhi said he was the first to pay a visit to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the latter was hospitalised on Monday. “We believe Vajpayee has contributed to the country,” he said.

In response, the BJP accused Rahul Gandhi of practising the “lowest form of politics” and said it was bizarre to see the president of the country’s oldest party stoop to such a low.

BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni claimed that it was clear that the Congress president had no link with Indian values as he kept violating political and social norms.

Hitting back at Gandhi, Baluni referred to Congress leaders’ criticism of former President Pranab Mukherjee for attending an RSS event, and said the country had seen how the party treated one of its veterans.

“The Congress president is practising the lowest form of politics. He is violating our social and political norms. He does not even seem to know the kind of politics he is doing. The country is watching how the president of the oldest political party is behaving,” Baluni said.

Rahul Gandhi should not lecture us on political values, he added.

(With agency inputs)