New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the opposition, with special focus on rival states of West Bengal and West Bengal. assam. At the receiving end it is congressis the main challenger to the BJP in Assam and the main contender for power in Kerala, Trinamool Congressthe saffron party’s main political rival in West Bengal. The prime minister’s speech also mentioned the DMK, which rules Tamil Nadu, but made no direct accusations against Stalin’s government.
Although the strongest attacks were reserved for the Congress and Gandhi factions, Mamata Banerjee The Trinamool Congress she leads has come under attack for allegedly supporting infiltrators.Congress was quick to label the Prime Minister’s speech “another election rally speech” and accused him of lying.Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Channel“His self-obsession and his obsession with dialogue and demagoguery are on full display,” the Congress leader added.‘West Bengal government is insensitive’The Prime Minister called the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal “insensitive” and alleged that the ruling party was helping infiltrators. He took a jibe at Mamata Banerjee, who herself appeared before the Supreme Court to argue in an ongoing case against the ongoing Special Intensification Amendment (SIR) in the state.West Bengal will go to polls for a new assembly in a month or two and the BJP is making all-out efforts to wrest power from the Trinamool Congress.“Our TMC colleagues have said a lot… They should introspect… A ruthless government is setting new records of decline and they are preaching here. Such a ruthless government is pushing the future of the people into darkness,” Modi said, referring to the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government.“They only care about power… Even the most prosperous countries are expelling illegal infiltrators. In our country, the courts are under pressure to rescue infiltrators,” he claimed.He lamented: “How can the youth of this country forgive these people who are working hard to fight the cases of infiltrators? They are taking away the rights of our youth, their livelihood… tribal lands. This is endangering the lives of our sons and daughters… But they only care about power, they are advising us.” Modi said they are “turning a blind eye” to these problems faced by the youth.“Congress, Congress, Congress…and Assam”Much of Prime Minister Modi’s speech focused on the Congress and the Gandhi family, including Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.The Congress party has been accused of insulting the President and by extension the entire tribal and women community, the Sikh leader of the BJP Ravneet Singh Bittu and by extension the entire Sikh community and finally the Acting Lok Sabha Speaker of Assam and by extension the entire people of Assam.Referring to the chaos in the Lok Sabha, the Prime Minister said: “Congress has insulted the President. This is shameful… Yesterday in the Lok Sabha, there could be no discussion on the President’s speech. This is an insult to the office of the President. Such people have no right to talk about the Constitution”.“You have insulted tribes, women and India’s highest office,” he pointed out.“The incident that happened in the Lok Sabha was very painful. We can understand your frustration, but this happened in the palace of democracy. There was a member of Parliament from Assam on the chair and documents were thrown at him. Isn’t that an insult to the Northeast? Isn’t it an insult to the people of Assam?”He was referring to Dilip Saikia, the BJP MP from Darang-Udalguri in Assam and Krishna Prasad Tenneti, the TDP MP from Bapatla in Andhra Pradesh. Both are members of the Presidency of the Lok Sabha.Assam, like Bengal, will vote for a new parliament in a few months and the Congress is gearing up to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has ruled the state for the past decade.The Prime Minister spoke without any disruption as the entire opposition walked out of the Union House after initially raising slogans against the Centre. The opposition claimed that opposition leaders in the House of Federation and the House of People were not allowed to speak, prompting them to go on strike.“Vipaksha ki awaaz nahi dabegi. Tanashahi nahi chalegi. LoP (Leader of Opposition) ko bolne do. (The voice of the opposition cannot be silenced. Dictatorship does not work. Let the opposition speak)”, the opposition leaders raised slogans as soon as the Prime Minister started speaking. However, once they left, there was no further disruption as was the case yesterday when the Prime Minister did not address the Lok Sabha.(Based on input from each agency)
