Congress, BJP get personal after PM narendra Modi’s US Speech

NEW DELHI: The Congress and the BJP engaged in a verbal duel over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks in the United States, with the former saying “a showman Prime Minister” has dragged political narrative of India “to gutter level” on foreign soil and the ruling party accusing its rival of becoming the voice of “untruth, malice and utter frustration trapped in an inept leadership.”

The Congress questioned the reliability of Modi turning emotional while saying his mother once did domestic chores for a living and he sold tea. “We have no evidence to know Modi’s mother indeed had actually worked in other places. What does our Indian culture say? When your parents grow old, take care of them. But the PM did not even invite his mother to his swearing-in ceremony when he was elected PM. When he was the Gujarat chief minister, he did not stay with his aged mother…Similarly, we known when his father and uncle ran a canteen, he sat at the counter to collect money. It is time for 24X7 media to actually do some investigation on whether Modi had ever sold team as he claims,” Sharma told the media in New Delhi on Monday.

BJP drew a contrast between Modi’s ‘devotion’ to his mother and Sonia Gandhi ‘ruining’ Congress with her “devotion to her inept son.” “It was perhaps both significant and revealing that Congress chose to get personal in an extremely appalling and pathetic manner by commenting on the moving moment when the Prime Minister recalled what his mother had done. He is devoted to his mother.

He touched her feet after election victory. This is quite in contrast to Congress where a mother has ruined the party and is trying to ruin the nation by her utter devotion to her completely inept son. It is this doting behaviour that has made Rahul Gandhi the spoilt child of the Indian politics,” BJP spokesperson MJ Akbar told the media at the BJP headquarters. Sharma accused the Prime Minister of trying to run down his predecessors by claiming nothing in India had happened before he assumed office.

“Criticising your country outside, on foreign soil, is in poor taste. It is not only deplorable but condemnable. PM indulges in defaming those who have made enormous contributions to this country and has dragged the political narrative of India to a gutter level. It shows Modi is full of himself and makes hugely exaggerative and inaccurate claims about his government’s achievements and in running down all previous governments of India by being unmindful of the fact those who were sharing stage with and hearing him have better knowledge of the actual facts.”

Sharma has also demanded “an independent probe into the enormous money spent on PM’s shows abroad and on whether thousands of BJP and RSS workers were taken to those venues as part of crowd-mobilisation.”