Rijiju offers PM’s chadar at Ajmer, Kharge sends one too

Rijiju also launched a web portal of the dargah, the ‘Garib Nawaz’ app for pilgrims and an operations manual, which is a comprehensive guide designed to ensure the effective conduct of the Urs, with detailed protocols for crowd management, security, healthcare, and sustainability.

Talking to reporters later, the Minister said the message of brotherhood and peace goes from the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti “to the entire country and the world”.

Kharge, in a post in Hindi on X, referred to the country’s “Ganga-Jamuni culture” and said his sending the ‘chadar’ was a “message… to the entire world that the roots of national unity and brotherhood in India are so deep that they cannot be shaken by a few people with distorted mindset.”

“The symbol of our country’s Ganga-Jamuni culture, national unity, mutual brotherhood, love and affection, etiquette and hospitality is behind the offering of the ‘chadar’,” he wrote.

Recalling that 2025 was the centenary year of Mahatma Gandhi becoming the Congress president, he wrote: “We should always remember that the ‘merchants of hatred’ have snatched the Father of the Nation from us, but his ideas are alive and the Congress party is constantly fighting for this by keeping the concerns of the people at the forefront. Therefore, the message of peace and brotherhood should spread from Khwaja’s shrine to the entire world.

“Let us pray that peace, tranquillity, love, affection, democracy and the centuries-old Ganga-Jamuni culture remain in the country as long as the sun and the moon exist. Jai Hind,” Kharge wrote.