Partition Day event turns awkward as BJP MP Rao Inderjit flags ‘community-specific’ politics

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) event meant to commemorate the horrors of Partition turned into an unexpected display of the party’s internal fault lines in Gurugram on Friday, with Union Minister of State for Planning and MP Rao Inderjit Singh publicly objecting to the programme being projected as a “community-specific” event and questioning why local leaders had not been invited.The State-level Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas programme at Sector 29 brought together BJP national president Nitin Nabin, Union Minister Manohar Lal and Haryana BJP president Archana Gupta. But the spotlight soon shifted from Partition remembrance to the politics within the Haryana BJP.Taking the microphone, Mr. Singh made it clear that he was unhappy with the way the event had been organised. “People from vari