New Delhi: Criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the PM does not talk about core issues and rather brings up Congress, former PM Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan in his speeches.
His remark came shortly after Modiu2019s reply in Lok Sabha to the Motion of Thanks on the Presidentu2019s Address.
u201c He talks of Congress, of Jawaharlal Nehru, of Pakistan, etc, but not of core issues,u201d Rahul said. The Congress also described Modiu2019s address in Parliament as one that oscillated between u201c stand- up comedyu201d and u201c rank communalismu201d, and said he should apologise for u201c misleadingu201d the country by quoting Jawaharlal Nehru u201c out of contextu201d. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari said it was unfortunate that the PM made a reference to Pakistan seven times during his address and accused him of hyphenating India with Pakistan during the last five years.
He also accused Modi of destroying the Indian economy and said the PM is covering this up by dividing society through polarisation.
u2018 PMu2019s speech a fairy taleu2019 TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday termed Modiu2019s speech in the LS as u2018 a mix of fairy tale and mediocrityu2019. u2018 It was a mix of fairy tale and mediocrity.
There are no numbers in the budget or in his speech, there is only qualitative grandstanding,u201d Moitra told ANI. Earlier, Modi slammed his political rivals saying that there was a problem in the mindset of the Opposition that saw some people as u2018 Muslims of Indiau2019 while for BJP everyone is an India. A gencies u2018 PM talks of Cong, Nehru, Pak, but not unemployment and jobsu2019 Rahul Gandhi hits out at Narendra Modi for missing out u2018 core issuesu2019 in his speech in Parliament Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament on Thursday. PICS/ PTI UP CM gets EC notice over u2018 terroristsu2019 remark The Election Commission on Thursday issued a show- cause notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his alleged u2018 biryani for terroristu2019 remarks.
The EC has asked him to respond to the notice before 5 pm on Friday. The EC said that prima facie, by making such remarks the senior BJP leader has violated provisions of the Model Code of Conduct enforced for the Delhi Assembly polls scheduled for February 8. According to the notice, Adityanath had on February 1 said that u201c today biryani is not being served ... the habit of feeding biryani was with the Congress in Kashmir or is with Kejriwal for Shaheen Bagh like incidents. ( The habit of feeding biryani) is not of the BJP.u201d Cops direct Jamia to remove protesters The Jamia Millia Islamia appealed to its students on Thursday to not be part of an u201c agitating crowdu201d protesting against the CAA outside its campus, days after the Delhi police urged the university administration to remove protesters from the road near one of its gates. In view of the Delhi polls and recent firing incidents, the Jamia Nagar SHO wrote a letter to the university registrar, asking the varsity to remove students, former students and locals who protesting against the CAA and NRC on the Okhla Road outside gate number 7. Meanwhile, A Delhi court Thursday sent Sharjeel Imam, arrested on sedition charges, to judicial custody for six days, his lawyer said.
u2018 The biggest issue today is unemployment and jobs. We asked the PM many times, but he did not say a word on this. PM Modiu2019s style is to distract the country from core issuesu2019 Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader
