New Delhi: While unfurling the flag on the occasion of the 72th Independance Day at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday, BJP president Amit Shah ended up pulling the flag down rather than hoisting it up on the pole, a video of the ceremony shows.
However, he immediately held the string and pulled the flag up in time. Telecasting it live, Doordarshan News anchor after a brief silence calls it a “disaster.”
In a reaction to the event, the Congress quickly tweeted that the one who cannot “hold the flag of our country, how can he be expected to run our country?” The Congress also posted a video of the incident on its official Twitter handle .
The Congress tweeted, “Those who cannot handle the flag, how will they handle the country..If those people who have treated the flag with contempt for over 50 years had not done so, the flag would not have been insulted like it was today.”
