"No love for Sanatana": Jharkhand BJP Chief slams Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Chhath Puja
Oct 30, 2025
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 30 : Jharkhand BJP President Babulal Marandi on Thursday targeted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on Chhath Puja and said that the latter has no love for Sanatana.
"Rahul Gandhi has nothing to say...For 15 years there was a government of Husband-wife in Bihar and they did nothing for development of Bihar. He has nothing to speak about what their government did for the betterment of Bihar...He has no love for 'Sanatana," Marandi told the media.
Earlier today, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi alleged that there are "two Indias"; one which pretends that the Yamuna is clean by making a separate pond for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while on the other side, the pollution of the river had been evident.
"There are two Indias. During the Chhath Puja, PM Modi decided to take a bath in the Yamuna. On one side, there is the reality of India and Bihar, where the Yamuna is polluted, and on the other side, PM Modi built a small pond of clean water. Clean water was brought from pipes so that PM Modi could take a bath in it," Gandhi said while addressing a rally in Bihar's Nalanda.
On Wednesday too in Bihar's Darbhanga, Rahul Gandhi said that the Prime Minister has "nothing to do with Chhath Puja," claiming he took a dip in his "swimming pool" rather than the River Yamuna in Delhi.
He said, "There's no Yamuna there; there's a pond there. Narendra Modi went to bathe in his swimming pool. He has nothing to do with the Yamuna. He has nothing to do with Chhath Puja."
This came after the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi alleged that the BJP government created "fake Yamuna" for PM Modi to take a dip during Chhath Puja.
"Rekha Gupta's government created a fake Yamuna at Vasudev Ghat for making Reels and Videos. Filtered water from the Ganga was poured into it, and it was claimed that the Yamuna had been cleaned," AAP wrote on X on Tuesday.
