Rahul Gandhi, Kharge Skip PM’s I-Day Occasion: BJP Flags Congress’s Repeated ‘Disrespect Of Sindoor’
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Even because the controversy was brewing, the Congress launched photos of Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge unfurling the nationwide flag on the Congress headquarters in Indira Bhawan
PM Modi on the I-Day occasion at Purple Fort; Rahul Gandhi at Indira Bhawan. (PTI)
The absence of prime two leaders of the Congress – Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Chief of Opposition within the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge – from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day occasion at Purple Fort has stirred a row, with the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) already making it a problem.
The BJP has known as it a “disrespect” to each the PM’s place, the flag, and extra importantly, to the ‘Operation Sindoor’ which was the theme of the August 15 celebrations right this moment.
Even because the controversy was brewing, the Congress launched photos of each Gandhi and Kharge unfurling the nationwide flag on the Congress headquarters in Indira Bhawan.
As an LoP, Gandhi had attended the Purple Fort occasion final 12 months, nevertheless it quickly snowballed into an enormous controversy. Many within the Congress objected to the truth that disrespect was proven to the LoP by making him sit on the again whereas different ministers sat within the entrance row.
The Defence Ministry, which oversees the seating and different preparations, clarified that the LoP was not focused and the entrance rows have been reserved for the Olympians who have been being felicitated.
It’s not the primary time that Congress has boycotted or stayed away from the PM’s occasions. Like, it didn’t attend the ‘bhoomi pujan’ for the brand new Parliament constructing nor its inauguration. The Congress, regardless of an invitation, skipped the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha on grounds that it was a BJP occasion and had nothing to do with spiritual emotions.
Congress spokesperson in television debate with me simply now confirmed that “LoP” Rahul Gandhi skipped fifteenth August Program at Purple FortThis was a nationwide celebration however sadly Lover of Pakistan Rahul Gandhi – in Modi virodh does Desh & Sena Virodh!
Shameful behaviour
Is that this…
— Shehzad Jai Hind (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Shehzad_Ind) August 15, 2025
The Congress has confronted assault for a lot of of its statements over ‘Op Sindoor’ and with Gandhi’s questions together with on what number of Indian jets fell or was it the Pakistani jet; who requested for the ceasefire and was it dictated by America. The BJP has accused the Congress of talking a language which emboldens Pakistan and is anti-national.
This 12 months’s invitations for the Purple Fort speech had Operation Sindoor as its theme, and the absence of the LoPs has given ammunition to the BJP.
The PM’s touch upon the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and emergency has additionally not gone down nicely with the Congress, the place they’ve accused the PM of constructing a political level on an event the place it ought to have been averted. As per Congress, that is one cause why the highest Congress leaders don’t see some extent in attending an occasion which is political and fewer about nationalism.
Pallavi Ghosh has coated politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog in her reportage. She has als…Learn Extra
Pallavi Ghosh has coated politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog in her reportage. She has als… Learn Extra
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