The world leaders attending the summit were offered a full vegetarian fare at yesterday’s meet. The menu for the big dinner at BRICS meet has drawn sharp remarks from leaders of the Congress, who called it the BJP’s effort to impose vegetarianism on the world.
Indian non-vegetarian food is delicious. As are my sister’s chole bhature”. “The BJP’s habit of imposing its dietary preferences on fellow Indians is already deeply problematic. Now, they have taken it a step further by imposing their own choices on dignitaries from across the world,” Congress’s Pawan Khera posted on X.
This irked the Congress, with Rahul Gandhi, in a post on social media platform X, saying “For the record: 80% of Indians are non-vegetarian.
The BJP has hit back, accusing the Congress of trivialising a major diplomatic event by focusing on food rather than policy outcomes.
The opposition, the BJP said, failed to raise questions on the summit’s resolutions, discussions on global challenges, or India’s success in securing consensus among BRICS members.
And that’s why I said,,,, “Mutton-chicken missing… Mama-Fufa will get upset!” he added — ending his remarks borrowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Naraz Fufa” dig at the Opposition. The Congress, it added, was “sulking” over India’s emergence as an influential voice in global affairs and in absence of any real space to criticise, was focussing on the dinner menu.
