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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge was absent from the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort in Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation earlier today..
The Congress chief would attend the flag hoisting ceremonies at his house and party headquarters, party officials said.. Speaking to news agency ANI on Mallikarjun Kharge's absence from the Independence Day function at Red Fort, Congress leader Rajiv Shukla said the Congress chief was busy with other programmes...
He will be coming here (Congress headquarters) to hoist the flag," Rajiv Shukla said.. Senior party leader Pawan Khera said the BJP was "apparently upset" that Mallikarjun Kharge was not able to attend PM Modi's Independence Day speech at the Red Fort...
He asked whether the party did not have the "independence" of hoisting the flag at its office on Independence Day.. "Apparently the BJP is upset that Khare ji was not present at the PMs Red Fort speech..
Before PM Modi's Independence Day speech, Mallikarjun Kharge issued a video statement on his X (formerly known as Twitter) handle and said that some people were of the opinion that the country had been developing only in the last few years, in an apparent reference to the Prime Minister./..
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