North News
New Delhi, January 31
President’s Secretariat on Friday dismissed remarks by Congress leaders on President Droupadi Murmu’s address to Parliament, calling them “unacceptable” and an affront to the dignity of the office. The response came after Congress MP Sonia Gandhi reportedly said Murmu appeared “very tired” and could “hardly speak” by the end of her speech. “While reacting to the media on the Hon’ble President’s Address to the Parliament, some prominent leaders of the Congress party have made comments that clearly hurt the dignity of the high office, and therefore are unacceptable. These leaders have said that the President was getting very tired by the end and she could hardly speak, the President Secretariat said.
“Rashtrapati Bhavan would like to clarify that nothing could be farther from the truth. The President was not tired at any point. Indeed, she has believed that speaking up for marginalized communities, for women and farmers, as she was doing during the course of her address, can never be tiring. The President’s office believes it might be the case that these leaders have not acquainted themselves with the idiom and discourse in Indian languages such as Hindi, and thus formed a wrong impression. In any case, such comments are in poor taste, unfortunate and entirely avoidable,” the President Secretariat further said.
