The Congress on Tuesday took a snipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sartorial sense during his interaction with President Barack Obama and utilised tha latter’s speech on religious freedom to claim it was a piece of advice for Modi.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh wondered whether the Prime Minister would advise his friends in the Sangh Parivar to stop justifying ‘Ghar Wapasi’ after Obama’s speech on religious freedom. For his part, former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh dubbed Modi a “megalomaniac” for wearing a suit that had his name embroidered all over it.
Singh termed as “improper” Modi referring Obama by his first name during the joint media interaction. He too said that the suit Modi wore during his talks with Obama that day which had his full name embroidered on it, reflected his “megalomania”.
“Totally insane...This reflects megalomania nothing else,” Ramesh said after the issue triggered a debate in the social media after close-up photographs of the Prime Minister’s pinstripe bandhgala suit that he wore on Sunday showed that his full name, Narendra Damodardas Modi, was embroidered on the fabric vertically down the stripe.
Singh said that Obama reminds us of Article 25 of Indian Constitution of the Right of every Citizen of India to progress practice and propagate his Religion. He also took the opportunity to thank Obama for “speaking up for the Indian Citizen’s Rights to Profess Practice and Propagate his Religious Belief.”
“Would Modi take his friend Barack’s advice and ask his friends in VHP to shut up and request (RSS chief) Mohan Bhagwat to stop justifying ‘Ghar Wapasi’IJ” Singh wrote in a series of tweets targeted at the Prime Minister.
Congress’ attack came hours after Obama made a strong pitch for religious tolerance contending that every person has the right to practice one’s faith without any persecution and that India will succeed so long it is not “splintered” on religious lines.