The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on Saturday landed in Bengaluru to congratulate the Indian Space Research Organisation scientists on the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on the Moon. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived on Saturday, neither Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah nor the deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar were at the airport to receive him. According to the Congress, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, purportedly barred the chief minister from receiving him at the airport, in a major breach of protocol. He is apparently so irritated by the CM and deputy CM of Karnataka for felicitating the scientists of ISRO before him, that he has purportedly barred CM from receiving him at the airport, going against protocol. This is nothing but petulant petty politics, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh posted on X. Has PM Modi forgotten CM Modis visit to the Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad on Oct 22, 2008 just after successful launch of Chandrayaan-I at a time when Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister? The Congress leader added: ''It's time for the Congress to do something right,'' he added. However, Modi said he did not want to trouble the minister so early because he did not know when he would arrive in Bengaluru. As I did not know when I would reach Bengaluru, I requested the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and Governor not to take trouble so early, he said. I myself had told the Chief Minister and the Governor that they shouldn't come because I will be leaving after meeting with the scientists. I had myself asked them to refrain from fulfilling the protocol, as I did not know when I would arrive in Bengaluru, the prime minister said. Karnataka's Deputy Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, said it was ready to receive the prime minister, but since he got official information from the Prime Minister's Office, he wanted to respect it. Either me or the chief minister was ready to go and receive him, whether the time was right. But since we got an official information from the Prime Minister's Office, we wanted to respect it and we didn't want to be part of any politics, Shivakumar said. The Chandrayaan-3 lander was to be celebrated as National Space Day on August 23, the day the Chandrayaan-3 lander hit the moon, the prime minister said. On Wednesday evening, as the Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 successfully Touched the Moon, Modi had joined the ISRO team at the Mission Operations Complex in ISTRAC from Johannesburg, where he was attending the 15th BRICS summit.