BJP tweets Rahul’s video at Nepal membership, Cong says he’s in Himalayan nation for good friend’s wedding ceremony

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday tweeted a video of Rahul Gandhi apparently at a nightclub in Nepal, inviting a robust response from the Congress which stated he was within the pleasant nation to attend the wedding operate of a journalist good friend and that it isn’t a criminal offense to attend weddings of household and mates.

BJP’s social media division head Amit Malviya tweeted Gandhi’s video that went viral on social media.

“Rahul Gandhi was at a nightclub when Mumbai was under seize(sic). He is at a nightclub at a time when his party is exploding. He is consistent. Interestingly, soon after the Congress refused to outsource their presidency, hit jobs have begun on their Prime Ministerial candidate,” Malviya stated within the tweet.

Congress common secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala hit again, saying Gandhi was in Nepal for a personal wedding ceremony and has not gone there uninvited.

“Rahul Gandhi has not gone as an uninvited guest like Prime Minister Narendra Modi had gone to Pakistan to celebrate the birthday and cut cakes for the then Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif. Rahul Gandhi has gone to a friendly country Nepal to participate in a private marriage function of a friend. By chance, the friend also happens to be a journalist,” he stated.

Surjewala additionally hit out on the RSS, saying it isn’t a criminal offense to attend weddings of household and mates as it’s a part of our tradition, not like the RSS.

“Last when I checked, having a family in this country and having friends, attending marriage and engagement ceremonies is a matter of our culture and civilisation. It has still not become a crime in this country to be married, to be friends with someone or to attend their marriage celebration. Maybe after today, Prime Minister Modi or the BJP may decide that it is illegal to attend a marriage. They may say it is a crime to have friends or participate in family functions,” he stated.

“But, do let me know so that we all change our status and habits and civilisational practices of attending marriages of friends, as also family members,” Surjewala additionally stated.

Gandhi arrived in Nepal on Monday on a five-day personal go to to the nation.

According to The Kathmandu Post newspaper, the Congress chief is in Kathmandu to attend the marriage of his Nepali good friend Sumnima Udas.

“We had extended an invitation to Gandhi to attend the wedding of my daughter,” stated Bhim Udas, Sumnima’s father who additionally served as Nepal’s Ambassador to Myanmar.

Sumnima, a former CNN correspondent, is getting married to Nima Martin Sherpa, the report had stated.

The marriage operate is deliberate for Tuesday and a reception will probably be held on May 5 on the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bauddha, the bride’s father Bhim stated.