New Delhi: When she didn't sing it, the BJP raised hell over it. On Thursday, she sang it and the BJP didn't miss the opportunity to make an issue out of it, suggesting that the Congress President was actually 'rectifying' her mistake
The BJP dug out the Vande Mataram dirt on Thursday after Sonia Gandhi joined in the singing of the national song at a function marking the 121st foundation day of the Congress party.
The BJP had raised an outcry over Sonia Gandhi's absence at the centenary celebrations of Vande Mataram organised by the Congress Seva Dal near the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on September 7 this year.
The Congress had then defended the party chief, saying she had not been invited for the function, an excuse not many people really believed. So, it was a sigh of relief to many within the party when the party high command joined the singing of the national song at the party function on Thursday.
But Opposition BJP wasted no time in reviving the old bogey, suggesting that Sonia Gandhi actually joined the singing of the national song to "rectify her earlier mistake".
"We would have been happy if she had sung during the centenary celebration of the singing of the national song on a day decided by her own party-led government. Now that she has joined the chorus today, we feel she is only rectifying her past mistakes and there is nothing to be hailed," PTI quoted BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad as saying.
He alleged that Sonia Gandhi had, in fact, chosen to abstain on that day when the whole country was celebrating the centenary of singing of national song, "fearing displeasing the fundamentalist elements, who had objected to the singing of the song."
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