With fervent nationalism becoming the flavour of the election season, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's patriotic credentials and accused him of not raising the issue of India's "territorial integrity" during his meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The Congress leader claimed the PM "did not utter a word" on the boundary question when he hosted President Xi in his home state Gujarat a few years ago. "During Xi Jinping's meeting with Modi in India, the PM was seen sitting with him over a cup of tea without uttering a single word on the boundary dispute. Even during his (Modi) visit to China he never took up the Doklam issue," Gandhi told an election rally in the Arunachal Pradesh capital.