While taking an impromptu dig at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended up mocking dyslexic students on March 2 as he was answering a student’s question via video conference during the finals of the Smart India Hackathon at IIT Kharagpur.

When a student from Dehradun started to introduce her project, which she said was based on the idea of how dyslexic children can be very creative despite facing learning difficulties, Modi interjected and asked whether it would also help children who are 40-50 years old.

When the student said yes, Modi responded, “The mothers of such children will be very happy in that case.”

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