Congress, its leaders change social media show pics to Nehru holding tricolour
6 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: The Congress and a number of its leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday modified their social media show footage to a picture of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru holding the nationwide flag.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other BJP leaders made the ‘tiranga’ their profile image on social media platforms, Congress leaders and the celebration’s official handles put {a photograph} of Nehru with the tricolour as their show image on Twitter and different social media platforms The picture, seemingly photoshopped, was the identical — a black and white {photograph} of Nehru trying on the flag, in color, in his hand.
“Our tiranga is the pride of our country, the tiranga is in the heart of every Indian,” former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated in a tweet as he modified the show image of his social media accounts.
His colleague Jairam Ramesh took a dig on the prime minister, asking if the organisation that didn’t hoist the nationwide flag at its headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years will comply together with his message to make the ‘tiranga’ the profile image of social media accounts.
“In the Lahore session of 1929, whereas hoisting the flag on the banks of river Ravi, Pandit Nehru stated, ‘Once once more you must keep in mind that this flag has now been hoisted.
As lengthy as there’s a single Indian man, girl, youngster alive, the status of this tricolour shouldn’t be lowered,” Ramesh tweeted in Hindi.
“We are putting the DP of our leader Nehru with tricolour in hand. But it seems that the message of the Prime Minister did not reach his own family. Those who did not hoist the flag in their headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years, will they follow the Prime Minister’s message?” Ramesh stated in an apparent reference to the RSS.
He used the hashtag ‘MyTirangaMyPride’.
“विजयी विश्व तिरंगा प्यारा,
झंडा ऊँचा रहे हमारा” pic.twitter.com/KiWa7EP5qM
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 3, 2022
In a jibe on the BJP over the change in flag code to permit for polyester flags, Ramesh tagged a tweet with Nehru’s image holding the flag and stated, “and that is in Khadi”.
Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera in addition to another celebration leaders shared screenshots of the Twitter handles of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its chief Mohan Bhagwat and identified that that they had not modified their profile image to mirror the Tricolour.
“People of the Sangh, at least now adopt the tricolour,” Khera tweeted.
Among the opposite celebration leaders who modified their DPs within the run-up to Independence Day have been Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate.
The official Twitter deal with of the celebration in addition to that of the Congress Seva Dal and different party-related organisations additionally modified their profile footage on numerous social media platforms equivalent to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
READ HERE | Mehbooba Mufti’s new Twitter show pic reveals tricolour, previous J&Ok flag
“The tricolour is in our hearts, it is in our veins as blood. Let us all make this tricolour which gives the message of unity, our identity. Jai Hind,” the Congress stated on Twitter.
On Tuesday, Modi modified his show image on social media accounts to the nationwide flag and urged folks to do the identical as a part of a collective motion to have fun the tricolour.
Other senior BJP leaders, together with Union ministers and chief ministers, adopted swimsuit.
Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and chief ministers Yogi Adityanath and Shivraj Singh Chouhan have been amongst a lot of celebration members who switched their profile footage on Twitter to the nationwide flag.
In his Mann ki Baat radio broadcast on Sunday, Modi stated the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ is popping right into a mass motion and urged folks to place the ‘tiranga’ because the profile image of their social media accounts between August 2 and 15.
NEW DELHI: The Congress and a number of its leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday modified their social media show footage to a picture of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru holding the nationwide flag.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other BJP leaders made the ‘tiranga’ their profile image on social media platforms, Congress leaders and the celebration’s official handles put {a photograph} of Nehru with the tricolour as their show image on Twitter and different social media platforms The picture, seemingly photoshopped, was the identical — a black and white {photograph} of Nehru trying on the flag, in color, in his hand.
“Our tiranga is the pride of our country, the tiranga is in the heart of every Indian,” former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated in a tweet as he modified the show image of his social media accounts.
His colleague Jairam Ramesh took a dig on the prime minister, asking if the organisation that didn’t hoist the nationwide flag at its headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years will comply together with his message to make the ‘tiranga’ the profile image of social media accounts.
“In the Lahore session of 1929, whereas hoisting the flag on the banks of river Ravi, Pandit Nehru stated, ‘Once once more you must keep in mind that this flag has now been hoisted.
As lengthy as there’s a single Indian man, girl, youngster alive, the status of this tricolour shouldn’t be lowered,” Ramesh tweeted in Hindi.
“We are putting the DP of our leader Nehru with tricolour in hand. But it seems that the message of the Prime Minister did not reach his own family. Those who did not hoist the flag in their headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years, will they follow the Prime Minister’s message?” Ramesh stated in an apparent reference to the RSS.
He used the hashtag ‘MyTirangaMyPride’.
“विजयी विश्व तिरंगा प्यारा,
झंडा ऊँचा रहे हमारा” pic.twitter.com/KiWa7EP5qM
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 3, 2022
In a jibe on the BJP over the change in flag code to permit for polyester flags, Ramesh tagged a tweet with Nehru’s image holding the flag and stated, “and that is in Khadi”.
Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera in addition to another celebration leaders shared screenshots of the Twitter handles of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its chief Mohan Bhagwat and identified that that they had not modified their profile image to mirror the Tricolour.
“People of the Sangh, at least now adopt the tricolour,” Khera tweeted.
Among the opposite celebration leaders who modified their DPs within the run-up to Independence Day have been Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate.
The official Twitter deal with of the celebration in addition to that of the Congress Seva Dal and different party-related organisations additionally modified their profile footage on numerous social media platforms equivalent to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
READ HERE | Mehbooba Mufti’s new Twitter show pic reveals tricolour, previous J&Ok flag
“The tricolour is in our hearts, it is in our veins as blood. Let us all make this tricolour which gives the message of unity, our identity. Jai Hind,” the Congress stated on Twitter.
On Tuesday, Modi modified his show image on social media accounts to the nationwide flag and urged folks to do the identical as a part of a collective motion to have fun the tricolour.
Other senior BJP leaders, together with Union ministers and chief ministers, adopted swimsuit.
Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and chief ministers Yogi Adityanath and Shivraj Singh Chouhan have been amongst a lot of celebration members who switched their profile footage on Twitter to the nationwide flag.
In his Mann ki Baat radio broadcast on Sunday, Modi stated the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ is popping right into a mass motion and urged folks to place the ‘tiranga’ because the profile image of their social media accounts between August 2 and 15.
