Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Howdy Modi event amid much fanfare and hullabaloo has received flak from the Congress with its Rajya Sabha MP Anand Sharma hitting out at the PM for campaigning for President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 elections in the United States.

In a tweet, Sharma said India's relationship with the United States has always been bipartisan, related to Republicans and Democrats. He slammed Modi for openly campaigning for Trump calling it a breach of both India and America as sovereign nations and democracies.

In another tweet, he reminded Modi that he was representing India as a Prime Minister in the US and not a star campaigner for the forthcoming elections there.