“What legitimises power is the manner in which it is exercised,” he said and added that accountability to the “spirit of Constitution” is important in a democracy.
Describing the boycott of the oath-taking event by the BJP as an “insult to the Constitution”, both the ruling Congress party and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi criticised the BJP for acting “against the spirit of democracy”.
Lauding the role of doctors, paramedics and others, she said, "They battled a disease of which nothing was known, a virus that respected no boundaries, that afflicted both patient and doctor, that harmed the sick and the nurse, the paramedic and even those that guarded, supplied and managed our hospitals." Yet, this community of people. rose to show the true essence of human resolve, tenacity, resilience and compassion, Sonia Gandhi noted.