New Delhi: The RSS mouthpiece Organiser targeted the iftar party hosted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. “The party thrown by the Congress president was more a show of Opposition unity against the government than a religious function,” it said.
The mouthpiece, in its editorial, stressed on Prime Minister Narendra Modi skipping President Pranab Mukherjee’s iftar parties this year and the last year. “...Everyone was interested in knowing whether the Prime Minister of this great ‘secular’ nation would be attending the iftar hosted by the constitutional head of India. Like last year, Prime Minister did not join the party and preferred to continue with his scheduled meeting with the CMs of the north-eastern states,” the editorial pointed out.
Coming down heavily on the tradition, the mouthpiece stated: “The ridiculous custom of non-fasting people feeding the well-fed guests for political calculation is against the spirit of any religious ritual.” It may be recalled that during the Vajpayee government, iftars were very much in play among Muslim BJP leaders.
