New Delhi: The Congress party and its General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh Thursday taunted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his lap of honour at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad’s Motera.
PM Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese took a round of the massive sports arena on a golf car before the start of the fourth Test match between India and Australia.
Attacking PM Modi, Jairam Ramesh tweeted: “Doing a lap of honour in a stadium you named after yourself in your own lifetime — height of self-obsession.”
Meanwhile, the Congress tweeted a photo of PM Modi with BCCI Secretary Jay Shah who is also the son of Union Home Minister Amit Shah writing: “Narendra Modi’s friend’s son gifted Narendra Modi’s photo to Narendra Modi at Narendra Modi Stadium.”
In 2015, the Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera was closed and demolished before being completely rebuilt at the cost of Rs 800 crore. It was then named Narendra Modi Stadium on February 24, 2021. The Narendra Modi Stadium is the largest cricket stadium in the world and has a seating capacity of 132,000 people.
Notably, the Narendra Modi stadium was the venue of the Namaste Trump event and hosted the then US President Donald Trump on February 24, 2020.
Ahead of the Gujarat Election held in December last year, the Congress had promised to restore the name of the Narendra Modi Stadium as Sardar Patel Stadium if voted to power.
“PM Modi changed the name of the stadium because he wants to put himself on par with Sardar Patel. Though the prime minister compares himself with Patel, he stands nowhere in comparison to Sardar Patel. We will change the name of the stadium in the first Cabinet meeting,” senior Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry said during the release of the party’s manifesto, as per PTI.
