Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Kanyakumari for a three-day meditation stint after wrapping up campaigning for the Indian Lok Sabha elections last Thursday. The prime minister is currently meditating at Dhyan Mandapam, the site where Swami Vivekananda is said to have offered prayers and had a divine vision of ‘Bharat Mata.’
Indian National Congress Party leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday slammed Prime Minister Modi. (Photo: tv9 network)
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi meditates at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanniyakumari, Indian National Congress Party leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday criticised the prime minister and said politics and religion should not be mixed.
“Politics and religion should never be mixed. The two should be kept separate. People of one religion may be for you and people of another religion may be against you. It is wrong to link religious sentiments with elections,” news agency ANI quoted Kharge as saying.
PM Modi to hold three-day meditation in Kanyakumari
The prime minister is in Kanyakumari for a three-day meditation stint after wrapping up his campaign for the Lok Sabha elections last Thursday. He is currently meditating at Dhyan Mandapam, the site where Swami Vivekananda is said to have offered prayers and had a divine vision of “Bharat Mata.” PM Modi plans to continue his meditation until June 1.
The Congress leader further slammed the prime minister, saying, “The prime minister has gone to Kanniyakumari and is performing a drama,” the news agency reported. The Congress leader also expressed concern over the waste of funds by deploying so many police personnel. “If you have faith in God, do it within your own country,” Kharge further said.
Old photos of PM Modi surface on social media
PM Modi arrived in Kanyakumari early on Thursday for a two-day visit to the iconic Vivekananda Rock Memorial. Meanwhile, a 33-year-old photo of PM Modi taken at the same place has gone viral on social media sites. The viral photo is from the Ekta Yatra, a unity march, on December 11, 1991, which began in Kanyakumari and ended in Kashmir. The photo shows PM Modi, then a BJP worker, paying obeisance at the statue of Swami Vivekananda along with party leader Murli Manohar Joshi and other party leaders.
