AMN / New Delhi
The BJP on Sunday lashed out at the Congress for tweeting a video, showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he was receiving Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said this displays the Opposition party’s “immaturity”.
“What they have done on their Twitter account shows their immaturity,” BJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters here.
The video is presented in such a form that it “does not behove a matured political party”, he said.
The BJP leader maintained that yet another survey has ranked Prime Minister Modi as “No 3 popular world leader” and Congress seems to have lost their balance and senses.
“This shows worst kind of politics.
In a video released on the day Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New Delhi, the Congress lampoons Modi’s now famous hugs with several world leaders by describing them with droll epithets punctuated with reaction gifs.
Notable amongst these are PM Modi’s “Titanic hug” with former French President Francois Hollande, the “Let me love you hug” which engulfed Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, and “That’s enough hugs” with US President Donald Trump.
The video also dubs his interactions with female diplomats “awkward”, as exhibited by cherry-picked footage showing his missed handshake with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and stilted courtesy to Japan’s first lady Akie Abe.
PM Modi broke protocol to receive Israeli counterpart and “close friend” Benjamin Netanyahu on his maiden visit to India. No sooner had Netanyahu alighted from his flight, that Modi enveloped him in one of his trademark bear hugs. Israeli first lady Sara Netanyahu stood to one side watching as both leaders were locked in a prolonged embrace, interspersed with several pats on the back, which eventually concluded with a spirited double handshake.