New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan with school girls in the capital on Wednesday. Many girl students tied rakhi on the wrist of PM Narendra Modi while the latter extended greetings to them on the festive day.
Earlier in the day, PM Modi also extended greetings to the nation & citizens, on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
“Happy Raksha Bandhan to my family members. The festival celebrating the unbreakable bond & immense love & trust between brother & sister is a sacred reflection of our culture,” he tweeted in Hindi.
मेरे सभी परिवारजनों को रक्षाबंधन की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं। बहन और भाई के बीच अटूट विश्वास और अगाध प्रेम को समर्पित रक्षाबंधन का ये पावन पर्व, हमारी संस्कृति का पवित्र प्रतिबिंब है। मेरी कामना है, यह पर्व हर किसी के जीवन में स्नेह, सद्भाव और सौहार्द की भावना को और प्रगाढ़ करे।
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 30, 2023
Raksha Bandhan, the festival of siblings, marks the celebration of sister-brother bonding where the former ties the sacred thread on brother’s wrists and the latter takes a vow to protect her dignity in all times, at all costs.
Cheaper cylinders as ‘Rakhi gift’
A day ago, Modi government announced price cut of Rs 200 on gas cylinders for general users and Rs 400 on beneficiaries of Ujjawala Yojana scheme. This meant that gas cylinders would be available now at Rs 900 & Rs 700 respectively.
The move was described as government’s Rakhi gift to crores of women as well as poor households, who have been beset by soaring LPG prices.
Though, price cut of gas cylinders was a welcome move, it also led to political uproar as the Opposition parties saw political motive in cylinders getting cheaper and dubbed the move as ‘mockery of rakhi’.
They claimed that people are expecting more cuts and this symbolic move of reducing it by just Rs 200 won’t be suffice.
Last week, when PM Modi visited South Africa, he was also tied rakhi by women members of the Indian diaspora in Johannesburg.
