PM Narendra Modi attended a lunch event along with Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and other MPs in the Parliament where millet dishes were served. This came after the ruling and opposition members in the Parliament argued over remarks made by Kharge.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, along with fellow Members of Parliament enjoyed a lunch hosted by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar to mark Millet Year 2023.
The millet lunch photos dropped hours after the opposition party leaders protested and disrupted House proceedings.
In one of the viral photos, PM Modi is seen seated next to Vice President Dhankhar, who is also the chairperson of Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
The luncheon came hours after the BJP and Opposition sparred over certain remarks made by Kharge in Rajasthan’s Alwar during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed their lives for this country. Did even a dog die from your (BJP) side ?” Kharge’s comments sparked angry reactions from the BJP inside the House.
Meanwhile, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi expressed his party’s strong condemnation of Kharge’s comments. He claimed that the opposition party was wrong in claiming the legacy of the freedom movement, as Mahatma Gandhi had said after independence that the Congress should be disbanded.
This is not the original Congress. We all know how it treated leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sardar Patel who were in the original Congress.
“This is an Italian Congress led by some other people,” he told reporters in an apparent reference to the opposition party’s longest-serving president Sonia Gandhi’s country of birth.
“This is a bogus Congress full of bogus leaders. Their president is a rubber stamp,” Joshi alleged, targeting Kharge.
(With agency input)
