Incidentally, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi had back in 2001, taken a holy dip at the Kumbh Mela in 2001, when her Indianness was rightly being questioned, however, years after a long political career, Gandhi was neither seen at the 2007 Kumbh nor at the once-in-a-century Mahakumbh 2025.
Samajwadi Party leaders have come up with bizarre remarks after the central govt approved a proposal to raise the legal age of marriage of women from 18 years to 21 years