PM Modi addressing an election rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna. X/BJP.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday tore into Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his population control remarks and questioned the silence of I.N.D.I.A bloc on it.

Addressing a political rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh’s Guna, PM Modi said: “A senior leader of the I.N.D.I alliance, ‘Ghamandiya Gathbandhan’ used indecent language for women inside Assembly yesterday. They are not ashamed. No leader of the I.N.D.I.A bloc said a single word against it. People who think like this about women, can they do anything good for you?”

He further said, Nitish Kumar, “in the presence of mothers and sisters in Bihar Assembly, spoke such vulgar language which cannot be imagined.”

Earlier on Wednesday, Nitish Kumar offered an explanation in the Bihar Assembly and said “I have expressed my regret while talking to journalists outside the House. I am ready to do so again. If my words have caused any hurt, I condemn myself.”

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“The context in which I had made the remarks must not be lost sight of. I have always been a strong votary of women’s education and it was a eureka moment for me when I saw a direct correlation between education levels among women and fertility rate,” the Bihar CM added.

On Tuesday, Nitish Kumar embroiled himself into a controversy for his remarks in the Bihar Assembly, as he stressed upon the importance of education among women to control the population.

Nitish Kumar had put forward a vivid description in the Assembly of how an educated woman can stop her husband during sexual intercourse.

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“The husband’s acts led to more births. However, with education, a woman knows how to restrain him… this is the reason the numbers (of births) are coming down…You, journalists also understand it well. Earlier it (fertility rate) was 4.3, but it has now reached 2.9. And, soon we will reach 2,” the Bihar CM had explained.

With inputs from agencies