PM Modi Hits Back At Congress Critism Over Ganesh Puja At CJIs Home, Says Lord Ganesha Put Behind Bars By Them

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reacted to the controversy over his visit to the house of Chief JusticeChief JusticeChief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on September 11. Hitting out at the Congress for questioning him for participating in the Ganesh Puja at the CJI's home, PM Modi said: "The British followed a policy of divide and rule and used to hate Ganesh Utsav. Even today, the power-hungry people who are busy in dividing and breaking the society have a problem with Ganesh Puja. You must have seen that the people of Congress and its ecosystem are angry because I participated in Ganesh Puja."

Congress leader Pawan Khera on September 12 took a dig at PM Modi, saying that he is known to drop in at events uninvited. Referring to his 2016 visit to Pakistan on Nawaz Sharif's birthday to wish him, Pawan Khera said: "The Prime Minister has a habit of going to places uninvited. He also went to Pakistan without an invitation... We don't know whether he was invited [to CJI Chandrachud's home] or not, or who were on the invitees' list."

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