Accusing the Congress of putting “family interest above national interest”, the BJP on Wednesday attacked the Opposition party for declining to attend a banquet given in the honour of visiting US President Donald Trump at the Rashtrapati Bhavan because its president Sonia Gandhi was not extended an invitation.
Senior BJP leader and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said his party presidents were also not invited for similar banquets to honour US president George Bush and Barrack Obama when they had visited India when the Congress-led UPA was in power.
The BJP had not boycotted the events then, he said, noting that Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari were the party president in 2006 and 2010 respectively during the visits of US presidents.
Prasad noted that Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress leader in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha respectively, besides former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were invited for the banquet given in Trump's honour.
