New Delhi, Jan 31 (Agency) The Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday condemned former Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s “tired” remark on President Droupadi Murmu, calling it “unacceptable” and said that it has hurt the dignity of the high office. A Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said, “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 statement said. The statement said that the President was not tired at any point and speaking up for the marginalsied communities could never be tiring.It said, “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 tiring.” “The President’s office believes it might be the case that these leaders have not acquainted themselves with the idiom and discourse in Indian languages such as Hindi, and thus formed a wrong impression. In any case, such comments are in poor taste, unfortunate and entirely avoidable,” it said. Notably, while talking to the media after the President’s address to both the Houses of Parliament, Sonia Gandhi when asked to react on the speech, had said, “The President was getting very tired at the end”. Soon after this, several leaders from the government slammed the Rajya Sabha MP calling her remark as an insult to the President.