Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia slammed the Opposition today, mocking the INDIA bloc and claiming that people who submitted the no-confidence resolution do not believe in it.
He also reacted to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent vitriolic attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Yesterday, Rahul Gandhi said that for the Prime Minister, Manipur is not a part of India. This Prime Minister has connected the Northeast with the world, he has a close relationship with the Northeast. The ideology of seeing India divided is yours, not ours,” said Mr Scindia, a former Congress leader known to be close to Mr Gandhi.
“I have spent 20 years in Parliament, but I have never seen something like this. The man on country’s highest post, the Prime Minister who resides in the hearts of 140 crore Indians, the words used for him by the Opposition. I believe they will have to apologise before the people of the country, if not before Parliament,” he said in Lok Sabha during the debate on the no-confidence motion against Narendra Modi government.
“This no-confidence motion is not about Manipur, it is a pretext under which they are tying to bake their political cakes. The Prime Minister made a sensitive statement on the Manipur situation outside Parliament, but they are stubborn that he must speak inside the House,” the Civil Aviation Minister said.
He furthermore questioned why former Prime Ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Dr Manmohan Singh “took a vow of silence” during earlier incidents of violence in Manipur in 1993 and 2011, respectively. “If this is not two-faced politics, politics of convenience, what is?”
He also slammed the AAP, which arose from the anti-corruption campaign during the UPA rule, for collaborating with the Congress. He claimed that Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a Congress Lok Sabha member, accused the Trinamool Congress of political violence and corruption in West Bengal. “Today, the Congress, the Trinamool, and the Left have joined forces.” “This is their world,” he explained.