Not invited, says VP Hamid Ansari after Ram Madhav's swipe at him

June 22, 2015 07:59

Vice President Hamid Ansari said that he was not invited to the yoga day event in Delhi after his absence was questioned by senior Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Ram Madhav. Madhav had deleted a tweet questioning Ansari's absence and then apologised to him saying he later learnt that the vice president was unwell.

The vice president's office said that was not correct. "Vice president was not unwell. He was never invited for the yoga programme," it said, adding, "The vice president only attends those programmes in which the minister concerned invites him as per protocol."

Madhav, a national general secretary of the BJP, had in the tweet questioned whether Rajya Sabha TV had blacked out Yoga Day and whether Ansari had given the event a miss. Though he deleted the tweet, several Twitter users shared screenshots of it.

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