Looks like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign tours and controversies go hand in hand. Already, Modi received flak on a couple of occasions for some of his comments on India, during his France and China tours and even for his name embroidered on his expensive suit during his meeting with the American President Barack Obama. Now, Modi is back in news once again for allegedly dishonoring the Indian Tricolor during his ongoing US trip.
Since yesterday, social media has been blazing with severe dissent against Modi’s audacity in signing on the Indian Tricolor and reportedly asking his chef in the US, Vikas Khanna, to gift it to the American President Obama. Soon after national media reported this act, protesting Indians took to social media and trended #ModiDisrespectsTricolor hashtag atop on Twitter and Facebook.
While Modi might have done this as a humble gesture towards his American friend, it angered many of his detractors back home. As per the law, The Prevention of Insults To National Honour Act, 1971 (Amended by the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Act, 2003) states: ‘Whoever in any public place or in any other place within public view burns, mutilates, defaces, defiles, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon or otherwise shows disrespect to or brings into contempt (whether by words, either spoken or written, or by acts) the Indian National Flag or any part thereof, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
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