Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said when the Congressmen were sacrificing their lives, RSS leaders were busy getting plum government posts.

“Modi keeps saying what the Congress has done in the past 70 years. Arre bhai, if we hadn’t done anything in 70 years, you would not have been the PM of this country. We brought independence. Mahatma Gandhi risked his life and gave us independence,” the Rajya Sabha member said at a public meeting here.