The Christmas spirit seemed in short supply as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted the BJP had freed the country from “bondage” to “only one family”, taking yet another swipe at the Nehru-Gandhis. Modi was addressing RSS and BJP workers at the 65-acre Rashtriya Prerana Sthalafter inaugurating the memorial site, which includes amuseum. More than 40,000 RSS and BJP workers attended the event, most of them ferried in from across Uttar Pradesh in 2,000 buses. The BJP and the NDA changed this situation.”Modi cited how he had renamed the Nehru Memorial Museum in New Delhi as the Prime Ministers’ Memorial Museum, which now recognises every Indian Prime Minister. “The Congress and its allies treated the BJP as untouchables, but the BJP’s culture is to respect all,” he said.

Source: The Telegraph December 26, 2025 00:41 UTC