Digvijaya Singh slams Modi over Obama speech

"Would Modi take his friend Barack's advice and ask his friends in VHP to shut up and request Mohan Bhagwat to stop justifying Ghar Vapsi ?" Singh tweeted.

Appreciating Obama's speech he said, "Obama reminds us of Article 25 of Indian Constitution of the Right of every Citizen of India to progress practice and propagate his Religion."

"Thank you Mr President Barack Obama for speaking up for the Indian Citizen's Rights to Profess Practice and Propagate his Religious Belief," he said.

He asked the Prime Minister to not to mind if he was at the receiving end of some unsavory remarks on social media by Religious Fundamentalists.

"Don't mind if you are at the receiving end of some unsavory remarks on Social Media by Religious Fundamentalists. Mr Modi are you listening?" Singh asked Modi.

Before leaving India, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday made a strong appeal for religious freedom and said the Asian nation will only succeed as long as it is not "splintered" along religious lines.

Speaking at the Siri Fort auditorium, Obama said: "Nowhere is it more important to uphold religious freedom than in India...India will succeed as long as it's not splintered along religious lines."

Referring to the Article 25 of the Indian Constitution which deals with  Right to Freedom of religion, Obama said: "Your Article 25 (of the Constitution) says that all people are 'equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice and propagate religion."

He said upholding the fundamental freedom is the responsibility of the government and every person in a nation.

He said: "Across our two great countries, we have Hindus and Muslims, Christians and Sikhs, Jews and Buddhists and Jains and so many faiths. We remember the wisdom of Gandhi ji who said 'for me, people of different religions are like beautiful flowers from the same garden'. They are branches of the same majestic tree."

  "No society is immune from the darkest impulses of man, and too often religion has been used to tap into those darker impulses as opposed to the light of god," Obama said.

Obama made the remarks at a time when religious conversions by right wing Hindu outfits were triggering controversies across India.

Ending their three-day visit to India, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama  boarded their special Airforce One flight at around 1-55 pm.

The flight took off at around 2 pm from Palam Airport. Obamas are headed for Saudi Arabia to  offer  condolences for the death of King Abdullah.

Obama became the first US president to take part in the Republic Day parade of India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

During the visit the two leaders also had a breakthrough in the stalled civil nuclear deal.