As Rahul Gandhi performs Aarti at Narmada river after stalling Narmada challenge for years

On November 25, Congress shared a video of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra performing Aarti on the Narmada Ghat in Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh. The Gandhi siblings carried out Aarti with the clergymen at Brahmapuri ghat on the banks of the Narmada river whereas holding Diyas and apparently reciting Narmadashtakam. The Congress leaders had reached the place as a part of the continued Bharat Jodi Yatra.

Rahul Gandhi additionally introduced a Chunari to the river earlier than praying on the famed Shiva temple, one of many nation’s 12 Jyotirlingas. The aarti was additionally attended by Priyanka Gandhi’s husband, Robert Vadra, and their son, Rehan.

नमामि देवी नर्मदे🙏🏼#BharatJodoYatra pic.twitter.com/3Bt312LLFw

— Congress (@INCIndia) November 25, 2022

As the Gandhi household continues to throw stunts to impress voters forward of the Gujarat Assembly elections this 12 months, it cannot be forgotten how former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stored Gujarat disadvantaged of Narmada water by sitting on the challenge to extend the peak of Sardar Sarovar dam for years as a result of the Congress authorities within the neighbouring states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra felt they had been at ‘disadvantage.’

Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India, laid the challenge’s basis stone in 1961. Since then, it was hampered by objections from campaigners akin to Narmada Bachao Aandolan founder Medha Patkar, who claimed that the dam’s water would power 40,000 villagers to relocate since their homes will likely be inundated. Earlier, Medha Patkar had joined Rahul Gandhi within the Bharat Jodi Yatra.

The Congress occasion, which is now pretending to be a non secular and religious occasion by worshipping at Narmada Ghat to safe some votes within the upcoming elections, stored the state of Gujarat parched for many years and a long time. Interestingly, the then Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijaya Singh had additionally opposed improve within the peak of the dam by the Narmada Control Authority (NCA).

Earlier in 2017, former PM Manmohan even lied that Narendra Modi, because the chief minister of Gujarat, by no means reached out to Singh over the problem relating to the completion of the dam. This adopted Narendra Modi’s accusation that every time he went to PM Manmohan Singh to make a illustration in regards to the dam, the latter would profess ignorance about its halted growth.

However, a number of stories emerged revealing that Modi had certainly met PM Manmohan Singh, not as soon as however twice to debate the Sardar Sarovar Dam challenge. According to 1 such report, Modi spoke with Manmohan Singh in 2009 to induce that the Sardar Sarovar Project be designated as a nationwide challenge.

As per one other report, Modi introduced up the Sardar Sarovar challenge subject once more in 2013 at a gathering with Manmohan Singh. During this dialogue, Gujarat’s then-chief minister, Narendra Modi, talked about placing a sluice gate on the dam and requested Manmohan Singh to acquire approval as quickly as possible.