 "'Congress angry because I attended Ganesh Puja': PM Modi on row over him visiting CJI's residence")
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit back at Congress over its criticism of him visiting Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s residence for Ganpati celebrations.
PM Modi, who turned 74 today, said that “Congress and its ecosystem” were “angry” with him for participating in Ganesh Puja.
Slamming the Congress, Modi said “power-hungry” people who were dividing the society were also having problems with the Ganesh festival and compared the opposition party with Britishers.
Modi was addressing a rally after launching the Odisha government’s flagship programme Subhadra Yojana in Bhubaneswar.
“Ganesh Utsav is not just a festival of faith for our country. It played a very important role in the freedom movement,” Modi told the rally.
“Even at that time, the British who followed the policy of divide and rule used to hate Ganesh Utsav. Even today, the power-hungry people, who are busy in dividing society are having problems with Ganesh Puja. You must have seen that the people of Congress and its ecosystem are angry because I participated in Ganesh Puja,” Modi said.
Possibly referring to the viral picture of a Ganesh idol being taken in a police van in Karnataka’s Mandya following communal clashes in the district, PM Modi said, “Lord Ganesh was ‘put behind bars’ in Congress-ruled Karnataka by these people.”
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Last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party slammed Congress, blaming it for being hypocritical. It released a picture of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosting the then-CJI Balakrishnan for an iftar party in 2009, asking why no questions were being raised when the event happened.
With inputs from agencies
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