Hajipur (Bihar): RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today took a potshot at Narendra Modi calling him a Dhritarashtra who is not only "blind" but also "deaf and dumb" and a "coward", as the chorus of criticism against the Prime Minister's "silence" on Dadri lynching grew louder.

Prasad, a former Bihar Chief Minister and Union Minister, also strongly defended his controversial comments on the beef row, asserting he had merely said that some Hindus too ate beef when they went outside the country.