TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani for reportedly not accepting a mammoth tricolor made by Dalits citing the lack of space. The Gandhi scion said that he would accept the national flag even if it were 50,000-km long.
Rahul said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Rupani had space only for a few industrialists, and not for Dalits, farmers and poor.Gandhi was addressing a gathering of Dalits at Dalit Shakti Kendra (DSK), a vocational training institute near Sanand town in Ahmedabad district, where he accepted a 125 x 83.3 feet tricolour weighing 240 kg.
The national flag was earlier meant to be presented to Rupani. In August, the DSK had even carried the tricolour to Gandhinagar. However, officials at the collectorate had allegedly refused to accept it citing lack of space.
“This flag is not yours alone, but belongs to the entire country. He (Rupani) said he has no place to keep the flag. Even if you gave me a 15 km or 50,000 km-long flag, and even if I had one inch space to keep it, I would have taken it,” Gandhi said.
