Independence Day 2024: Rahul Gandhi’s Seating Arrangement Triggers Row; Here’s What Govt Says

Independence Day 2024: In a clear political combat on Thursday, the Congress party observed that making Leader of Opposition interior the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi “sit interior the fifth row” on the Independence Day celebrations on the Pink Fort suggests Perfect Minister Narendra Modi’s “pettiness” and scarcity of admire for democratic traditions.

Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate claimed that Perfect Minister Modi is a persona with a “petty way of wondering” and he maintains giving proof of that himself.

“Or not it could be miles futile to feel big issue from small-minded persons. Narendra Modi truly showed his frustration by capability of making Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi sit interior the fifth row the total way by capability of the Independence Day celebrations, but this does now now not make any difference to Rahul Gandhi and he's going to shield raising worries with the persons as he has been doing,” she observed in a video observation on X.

Rahul Gandhi’s Seating Arrangement: What’s Govt Announcing

Ministry of Defence observed the Congress MP wished to be shifted lower to come again basically because the front rows were dispensed to the Olympic medal winners. The Ministry of Defence is responsible for conducting the Independence Day tournament and making the seating plans. Sources observed the LoP is over and over given a seat interior the first few rows as per protocol, as per a file by capability of India In on the moment.

Shrinate observed the rank of the Leader of the Opposition is that of a cabinet minister and the ministers of the authorities were sitting interior the first row.

“No longer best possible Rahul Gandhi turned into made to sit down interior the fifth row but Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s designated enviornment turned into also interior the fifth row,” she observed.

“A foolish observation has come from the defence ministry that ‘this turned into done as we desired to honour Olympians’. They've bought to be honoured and so should Vinesh Phogat, but did Amit Shah, J P Nadda, S Jaishankar and Nirmala Sitharaman, now now not come to a decision on to honour them?” she observed.

The Leader of the Opposition is quintessential in view that he makes the authorities guilty and puts the authorities interior the dock by capability of raising persons’s worries, Shrinate observed.

(With inputs from organisations)