Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the ‘Howdi, Modi’ event on Sunday, 22 September, extended tacit support to Donald Trump for the 2020 US elections, saying 'Abki Baar, Trump Sarkar".
Reacting to Modi's remarks, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, in a tweet, said the prime minister violated India's policy of non-interference in the domestic elections of another country.
Sharma said that India’s relationship with the US have throughout been bipartisan.
“Your actively campaigning for Trump is a breach of both India and America as sovereign nations and democracies,” Sharma said in a tweet.
“Reminding you that you are in the USA as our Prime Minister and not a star campaigner in US elections.”Anand Sharma, Congress Leader
Sab Accha Hai, Except Unemployment, Job Loss: Chidambaram's Dig at Modi
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who is jailed in the INX Media case, also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Bharat mai sab accha hai’ comment at the event.
To highlight the linguistic diversity of India, Modi said "all is fine in India" in several Indian languages from Punjabi to Bengali to Tamil among others.
"When you ask me Howdy, Modi? the only answer is 'everything is fine'," he said and then kept on repeating it in several Indian languages.
Chidambaram, in a tweet, said that “everything was fine” except for “unemployment, loss of existing jobs, lower wages, mob violence, lockdown in Kashmir.”
(With inputs from PTI)
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