Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, changed his display picture on social media accounts to the national flag and urged people to do the same as part of a collective movement to celebrate the Tricolour.
Other senior BJP leaders, including Union ministers and chief ministers, followed suit. Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and Chief ministers Yogi Adityanath and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, among others, switched their profile pictures on Twitter to the national flag.
A day after Modi and other BJP leaders made the Tricolour their profile picture, Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, and the party's official handles, on Wednesday, put a photograph—possibly photoshopped— of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru holding the national flag as their display picture on Twitter and other platforms.
Taking a dig at the Congress, the BJP asked Rahul Gandhi to look outside his family.
"I believe there should not be dynastic politics in every issue... They have displayed the picture of their leader who was the country's first prime minister. The Tricolour belongs to the poorest of the poor and to 135 crore Indians," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
"Anyone can hold the tricolour and put it in their DP (display picture)... His (Gandhi's) family has been in politics from the beginning. I feel Rahul Gandhi should give others a chance. It will be very good if his party workers display their picture with the Tricolour."
The country is honoured when an ordinary person, the last person in the queue, holds the national flag high and lauds the nation, he said.
—With PTI inputs
