'PM's Message Didn't Reach His Family': Congress Changes Social Media DP To 'Tiranga', Takes Swipe At RSS

Congress changed the display picture of social media accounts ahead of Independence Day and leader Jairam Ramesh took a veiled attack at RSS.

New Delhi: While PM Modi launched the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign ahead of the 76th Independence Day urging people to change their display picture on social media profiles with the national flag, Congress party joined the patriotic fervour but in a different fashion. Congress party changed its profile picture on social media accounts with India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru holding a tricolour. 

As a collective movement, most of the leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Jairam Ramesh changed their display pictures to Nehru with a tricolour in hand. 

Congress changed the picture with the caption in Hindi, “The tricolor is in our hearts, it is in our veins as blood. On December 31, 1929, Pandit Nehru while hoisting the tricolor on the banks of river Ravi said, 'Now the tricolor has been hoisted, it should not be bowed."

It added, “Let us all make this tricolor our identity, which gives the message of undivided unity of the country. Jai Hind”

Following the campaign, with #MyTirangaMyPride Congress leader Jairam Ramesh posted on Twitter in Hindi, "In the Lahore session of 1929, while hoisting the flag on the banks of river Ravi, Pandit Nehru said "Once again you have to remember that this flag has now been hoisted. As long as there is a single Indian man, woman, child alive, this The tricolor should not be bowed. The countrymen did the same.."

The Congress leader also took a swipe at Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and said, “We are putting the DP of our leader Nehru with the tricolour in his hands. But the Prime Minister's message does not seem to have reached his family. Will those who did not hoist the flag in their headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years listen to the Prime Minister?”

Senior party functionary Pawan Khera shared the screenshots of profile pictures of RSS and its chief Mohan Bhagwat. 

This comes after PM Modi on Sunday launched the #HarGharTiranga campaign urging the Indian nationals to put the tricolour as their display picture on social media from August 2 to August 15.