Modi 3.0: ‘Breathtaking hypocrisy,’ Jairam Ramesh on PM designate's tribute to Mahatma Gandhi

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ALSO READ: Modi’s oath-taking: NDA allies to get 12 berths. A look at probable ministersFurther, Jairam said: “He falsely claims that before the Attenborough film of 1982 on him, Mahatma Gandhi was not known to the world.

He demolishes and destroys Gandhian institutions in Varanasi, Ahmedabad, and elsewhere. Breath-taking hypocrisy!" On Sunday morning, Modi offered his tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and also offered homage at the war memorial ahead of his swearing-in as the prime minister for a third time in office.

He will take the oath of office at 7:15 PM on Sunday along with his council of ministers in a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.On June 5, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) unanimously passed a resolution to elect Narendra Modi as their leader. With today's swearing-in, Narendra Modi will become the only leader after former PM Jawaharlal Nehru, who has been elected for a third consecutive term after completing the full tenure of each previous term.According to PTI, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge would be attending the swearing-in ceremony.ALSO READ: Sonia Gandhi says Modi has lost ‘right to leadership’ after Lok Sabha pollsTaking a dig at Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that he has lost the mandate he sought and criticized him for not taking “responsibility for failure".“The Prime Minister who sought the mandate solely in his name to the exclusion of both his party and its allies has suffered a political and worse, a moral defeat.