He said, “Friends, we have achieved a lot in the last 75 years, but today’s complacent government is bent on undermining the great sacrifices of our freedom fighters and the glorious achievements of the country, which can never be accepted.” A statement that came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in which he expanded the Hall of Fame of the freedom struggle beyond Gandhi-Nehru to include Congress opponents and unsung subaltern heroes such as Hindutva icons Veer Savarkar, Ram Manohar Lohia.
His attack came a day after the BJP released a video describing its version of the events of the Partition of India in 1947, blaming the then top Congress leadership for it. The Congress chief, who is in isolation after contracting Covid-19, said in an Independence Day statement that his party is trying to “trivialize” the sacrifices of freedom fighters and “distort” historical facts for political gains. Efforts will fight.
Reacting to the PM’s speech marked by an attack on corruption and nepotism – a topic that many saw as specifically aimed at the Congress, the Congress also hit out at Modi in his Independence Day address, hitting out at him. Accused of humiliating the country. With his failure to present a “report card” of the performance of his government and the promises made to the people in the last eight years of BJP rule.
While Rahul Gandhi refused to respond to the PM’s references to nepotism, choosing only to greet the people of the country on Independence Day, party spokesperson Pawan Khera took a dig at Modi over his remarks and claimed that the PM He was referring to the “internal politics” of the BJP. And attack his own ministers whose sons, despite their lack of expertise, hold high positions in the field of cricket and politics. “It was a veiled attack on his own allies in the BJP. Perhaps it was a reference to the son of the Union Home Minister (Amit Shah), who never played a match at Lord’s but occupies an important position in cricket. Or was it about the External Affairs Minister (S Jaishankar), whose son holds an important position in a think tank, even if he is not a Foreign Service officer. Perhaps it was about the son of the Civil Aviation Minister (Jyotiraditya Scindia) or the Union Defense Minister (Rajnath Singh). So clearly, the reference to nepotism was a reference to the internal affairs of the BJP,” Khera said.
He also claimed that the PM’s speech was lacking in energy and emotions. The Congress held a parallel ceremony with the flag hoisting ceremony at the AICC headquarters.