New Delhi: On Wednesday, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi looked to downplay the comparison between iftar parties being held by him and Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
He told ANI: “Rahul Gandhi is organising Iftar party for political gain. However, I am doing so for the needy. We are not competing with them in any way: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on him hosting Iftar for triple talaq victims.”
Former presidents Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil, ex-vice president Hamid Ansari and several opposition leaders are likely to attend an Iftar being hosted by Congress president Rahul Gandhi today.
Gandhi has invited a host of opposition and senior party leaders to the Iftar, the first ever to be hosted by him as Congress chief.
Senior Congress and opposition party leaders are likely to attend the Iftar at a local luxury hotel here, according to sources.
Sources said leaders of all like-minded non-BJP parties, which have been holding parleys on key issues, have been invited for the event.
For Rahul Gandhi this will be the first occasion to host an Iftar after he took charge of the Congress. The party did not hold Iftar, which marks the customary breaking of the day-long fast in the holy month of Ramzan, during the past two years and its last Iftar was in 2015.