Congress accuses Centre of not celebrating Indira centenary
As the Congress organised nationwide programmes to mark the 100th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi, hailing her as one who fought for secularism and the poor, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram flagged the angst of the party with the government “not celebrating” the event.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “Tributes to former PM Mrs Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary”, while BJP veteran LK Advani and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel paid floral tributes to her in Parliament in the presence of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
BJP MP Varun Gandhi hailed his grandmother as “a mother to this nation”. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. To a lady that was a mother to this nation. Miss you Dadi…I know you always watch over us,” Varun said in a tweet that also had a picture in which the former Prime Minister is seen holding him, then a small child, in her lap.
Rahul, who is set to take over as Congress president within a fortnight, termed her ‘dadi’ his ‘mentor and guide’, who gave him strength.
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