Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the Congress and its ‘ecosystem’ were upset with him for participating in Ganesh Puja. Addressing a rally in Bhubaneswar, the Prime Minister made this remark in an apparent reference to the criticism by opposition parties over his participation in Ganesh Puja at the residence of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud recently.
He said, “Ganesh Utsav is not just a festival of faith for our country. It played a very important role in the freedom movement.” Modi said, “Even at that time, the British, who followed the policy of divide and rule, hated Ganesh Utsav. Even today, power-hungry people engaged in dividing and breaking the society are having problems with Ganesh Puja.
You must have seen that people of Congress and its ecosystem are angry because I participated in Ganesh Puja. He said that these people put Lord Ganesha “behind bars” in Karnataka.