Budget 2025, Jan. 31 -- Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's comments regarding President Droupadi Murmu's address to Parliament on Friday, ignited a political firestorm. Commenting on the President speech Sonia Gandhi had stated, "She could hardly speak, poor thing."

This has prompted backlash from political leaders, particularly from BJP leaders who retorted claiming Gandhi's remark "shows elitist, anti-poor and anti-tribal nature of the Congress Party". Furrther the saffron party also flagged, "Such an insult of the President was unprecedented."

BJP President JP Nadda tweeted, "I and every BJP Karyakarta strongly condemns the usage of the phrase "poor thing" by Smt. Sonia Gandhi for Honourable President of India, D...