'President wasn't tired at any point': Rashtrapati Bhavan slams "unacceptable" remarks by Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi's remarks, the Rashtrapati Bhavan, without mentioning her name called it «unacceptable» and said it «clearly hurt the dignity of the high office.»
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The Rashtrapati Bhavan also clarified that President Droupadi Murmu was «not tired at any point», adding that President believes speaking up for the marginalized communities, for women and farmers can «never be tiring».
«While reacting to the media on the Hon'ble President's Address to the Parliament, some prominent leaders of the Congress party have made comments that clearly hurt the dignity of the high office, and therefore are unacceptable. These leaders have said that the President was getting very tired by the end and she could hardly speak,» the Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a statement.
It further said that «it might be the case» that the leaders are not acquianted with idiom and discourse in Indian languages, adding that «in any case, such comments are in poor taste, unfortunate and entirely avoidable.»
«Rashtrapati Bhavan would like to clarify that nothing could be farther from the truth. The President was not tired at any point. Indeed, she has believed that speaking up for the marginalized communities, for women and farmers, as she was doing during the course of her address, can never be
