'At Rahul Gandhi's US event half the participants did not even stand up for national anthem', says BJP, releases video

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday claimed that “half of the people” at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s US event “did not even bother to stand up” during National Anthem.

Sharing a video of the event on Twitter, BJP’s Shehzad Poonnawalla tweeted, “Shocking, shameful. Received this video from media person with respect to Rahul Gandhi’s program. During National anthem half of the people Rahul addressed later did not even bother to stand up. Later they paused the national anthem in the middle and said it was just ‘Mic Check’. The onus is on Rahul Gandhi’s organising team to clarify if and why this disrespect was done? Who are the audiences who disrespect the National Anthem! No Indian would.. is Anthem used for Rahul’s mic check? Clarity would be appreciated”

Shocking , shameful

Received this video from media person with respect to Rahul Gandhi's program.

During National anthem half of the people Rahul addressed later did not even bother to stand up.

Later they paused the national anthem in the middle and said it was just 'Mic… pic.twitter.com/EhSTIEgc5T

— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) May 31, 2023

Earlier, BJP’s Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale took a dig at Rahul Gandhi’s event in the US and shared a video claiming that an “empty hall awaited” for the Congress leader.

“Empty hall awaited for @RahulGandhi in bay area, USA,” he tweeted alongside a video of the event.

Addressed a gathering of the Indian diaspora in San Francisco, Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at the ruling BJP government and said it is “threatening” the people and “misusing” the country’s agencies.

Speaking at an event in Santa Clara, California on Tuesday, Gandhi said the BJP and the RSS are controlling all the instruments of politics in India. He said before starting his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, he realised that the normal tools that have historically been used in politics were not working anymore. “The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies. The Bharat Jodo Yatra started because all the instruments that we needed to connect with the people were controlled by the BJP-RSS,” he said.

“We were also finding that in some way, it had become quite difficult to act politically. And that’s why we decided to walk from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he said.

Gandhi said the yatra carried the spirit of affection, respect and humility. “If one studies history, it can be seen that all spiritual leaders including Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the nation in a similar way,” he said.

Gandhi said India is not what is being shown in the media which likes to promote a political narrative that is far from reality, asserting that there is a “huge distortion”.

“It was very clear to me in the Yatra that it’s in the media’s interest to project these things, it helps the BJP. So, don’t think that everything you see in the media is the truth,” he said.

(With inputs from PTI)

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