BJP Hits Out at Congress Leader Sonia Gandhi Over ‘Poor Thing’ Remark on President Droupadi Murmu, Says It ‘Demeans High Office’

New Delhi, January 31: The BJP on Friday latched on to former Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s reaction to President Droupadi Murmu’s address to both Houses of Parliament, alleging the Congress leader referring to the President as a “poor thing” demeans the high office and reflects her feudal mindset.

Soon after the President delivered her address to the joint sitting, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were seen discussing the speech. “The poor lady, the President, was getting very tired by the end…she could hardly speak poor thing,” Sonia Gandhi was purportedly heard saying in a video doing the rounds on social media. ‘She Fully Respects President of India’: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Defends Sonia Gandhi’s ‘Poor Thing’ Remark on President Droupadi Murmu (Watch Video).

Latching on to the remark, BJP IT department head Amit Malviya said on X, “Sonia Gandhi referring to the President as a ‘poor thing’ demeans the high office and reflects her feudal mindset. This is not the first time the Congress has ridiculed the first tribal woman to hold the highest constitutional office in the country.” Sonia Gandhi’s ‘Poor Thing’ Remark: BJP President JP Nadda Strongly Condemns Congress Leader’s Comment for President Droupadi Murmu (Watch Video).

“Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition, who frequently flaunts a copy of the Constitution, has not even considered making a courtesy visit to the President,” he said. The Congress has no regard for Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution, constitutional values, or those from socially marginalized backgrounds — namely, Dalits, OBCs, and Tribals, he alleged.