Stop deceiving nation, show courage: Congress tells PM Modi

He (Modi) is known all over the world for the Godhra and Ahmedabad (killings of 2002).

PM Narendra Modi finally spoke about the lynching incident of Dadri and the argument regarding the Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali.

For instance, the PM has asked as to what role the Centre had in either the Dadri or Ghulam Ali episodes, instead accusing the opposition of “politics of polarisation” and of seeing “minorities as vote banks”.

The remarks reflected the view in the BJP that the organizers of the Ghulam Ali show succumbed to Sena’s tactics and while the black paint attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni was an embarrassment, the Devendra Fadnavis government ensured Kasuri’s book release was not disrupted.

“Such incidents took place in the past too”.

He also emphasised that the BJP is against such display of fake secularism. “A number of big incidents happened in the country earlier… people did not return (the awards)”, said Prasad. It is possible to resolve this through dialogue.

We need to credit Modi for having directly addressed the Dadri lynching episode during a newspaper interview and terming the tragedy as “unfortunate and unwarranted”.

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Wednesday stoked controversy by ridiculing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark over the Dadri lynching case. “The opposition is raising the bogey of communalism against BJP bringing those incidents, but are they themselves not doing politics of polarisation”.

Congress General Secretary Shakeel Ahmad said there was a vast gap between words and deeds of the PM and BJP. The political parties, like the police, engage in a fight over jurisdiction – ‘Kiski sarkaar hai?’, ‘SP ko kuch karna chahiya tha iske bare main, unki sarkaar thi”, ‘Humara fault nahi hai’, “Gau hatya hui hai.’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been active and eloquent on social media for two years – a year before he became the Prime Minister, and a year after that. Calling Modi’s statement “nothing but abdication of his responsibility as head of Government”, Surjewala alleged the Prime Minister’s assertion that his Government has nothing to do with these motivated hate mongering incidents is even more “painful and shameful”.