New Delhi: Unruffled by the criticism he invited over his remarks on the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in his yesterday’s speech in Lok Sabha while replying to the motion of thanks on the President’s address to Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today went ahead to attack the Congress Party in the Rajya Sabha, squarely holding it responsible for the caste politics among many other ills that inflicted the nation.
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“Some Members asked- if there was no Congress, what would happen? I would like to say, if there was no Congress there would be no Emergency, there would be no caste politics, Sikhs would never have been massacred, the problems of Kashmiri Pandits would not have happened,” he said while replying to the motion of thanks on the President’s address to Parliament, today.
He also said: “We will never learn lessons in democracy from those who trampled over democracy in 1975. The biggest threat to our democracy is dynastic parties. When one family gets too prevalent in a political party, political talent suffers.”Modi added that “this is a very important time to think, where to take the nation and how to take the nation ahead, when it celebrates 100 years of Independence.” He emphasised that he believed that in order to complete the resolution for this “we will need collective partnership and collective ownership”.
He called for ending the “tradition of differentiation” and said that “to walk together with the same mindset is the need of time”.
Watch his full address here:
– global bihari bureau
