TRUMP SKIPS GANDHIJI AT SABARMATI Congress takes pot shot at the US President
US President Donald Trump penned about Prime Minister Nrendra Modi as his “great friend” in the Sabarmati Ashram’s visitors’ book during his short trip there on his maiden visit to India on Monday afternoon, but did not mention Mahatma Gandhi for whom the place is famous across the world.
“To my great friend Prime Minister Modi, thank you for this wonderful visit,” Trump wrote in the visitor’s book after his 15-minute stay at the Ashram which is located at the Sabarmati river front.
Trump halted at Sabarmati during a roadshow from the airport to the Ashram which was a part of ‘Namaste India’ event organised here at Motera cricket stadium to greet him. Thousands of people along the way greeted the US President’s the cavalcade.
He went to Gandhi’s room during the brief stay here and spun ‘charkha’ briefly. Workers from the Sabarmati Ashram gave them a demonstration of the Charkha and how Mahatma Gandhi used the wheel to weave.
Meanwhile, the Congress criticised Trump for not mentioning Mahatma Gandhi in the visitor book of Sabarmati Ashram.
“This is a snapshot of the note that someone sent. It ostensibly is <\@>realDonaldTrumps note at Sabarmati. No mention of the Great Mahatma. Does he even know who Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was?” Manish Tewari wrote while tweeting the pictures of the visitor book.
Tewari also shared the picturess of Barack Obama who praised Gandhi during his visit. “And this is what <\@>barackobama had to say about the Great Mahatma possibly at Rajghat or Sabarmati.