Har Ghar Tiranga campaign being run by those who didn’t hoist Tricolour for 52 years: Rahul Gandhi

In a fresh dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its Har Ghar Tiranga campaign, Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, referring to the RSS, said history stands witness that those who are running the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign have come from an organisation (RSS) which did not hoist the Tricolour for 52 years.

Rahul was in Karnataka’s Hubli district on Wednesday. In the photos he posted of his visit to Karnataka Khadi Village Industries, he is seen posing with the National Flag and ironing one.

“It was a great pleasure to meet all the workers who weave our Tricolor at Karnataka Khadi Village Industries located in Hubli, Karnataka today. Lakhs of countrymen sacrificed their lives to keep the Tricolor always high, but one organisation always refused to adopt the Tricolor, did not hoist the Tricolor at its headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years and continuously humiliated it,” he said.

“Today, people coming out of the same organisation are telling the history of the tricolor and running a ‘Har Ghar Tricolor’ campaign,” the Congress leader added.

Attacking BJP-RSS, Rahul asked, “Why did RSS not hoist the tricolor at its headquarters for 52 years? Why is the livelihood of those who make the national flag out of Khadi being destroyed? Why was the import of machine-made, polyester flags allowed from China?”

Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader said, “They could not stop the Congress at the time of the freedom struggle. They won’t be able to party now.” His tweet comes on the day the Enforcement Directorate sealed the Young Indian office in the National Herald premises and barricaded the party headquarters and the residences of the Gandhis.