CHENNAI: Last week, the BJP organised a Jana Spandana program in Doddaballapur, Bengaluru to celebrate the third anniversary of the party’s coming to power in Karnataka.

BJP MP Smriti Irani in a speech said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi kicked off his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kanyakumari without paying his respects to Swami Vivekananda as the saint was not a member of the Gandhi family.

Congress leaders countered this with a tweet that showed Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the Vivekananda Memorial.

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