Chennai: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited Telangana and Tamil Nadu on Monday raked up 'parivarvad' or dynastic politics to target rival parties, Congress and DMK as he focused on southern states before Lok Sabha polls due in coming months, Congress general secretary in-charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'My country is my family,' remarks and said that escalating concerns over inflation, unemployment, and social polarisation in last 10 years have been 'anyaay kaal' for his own family.
"Even our priority is the people of our country. We are raising their voice against inflation, unemployment, economic instabilities, and polarisation. If 140 crore Indians are his family, why has he broken their trust, why has he done injustice to them?. The last 10 years have been 'anyaay kaal' for his own family. He is a democratically elected person, but his personality and his way of working is absolutely unjust," Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday.
"He sits there just for marketing, and rebranding, and is a self-proclaimed Vishwaguru. We respect the post of the Prime Minister but if a person demands respect, he needs to behave respectably," he added.
On Monday, PM Modi just like in Telangana, where he coined 'jhoot and loot' to corner the ruling Congress governemnt, in Tamil Nadu too he launched a no-holds-barred attack on DMK, a prime constituent of INDIA bloc on the same lines.
At the same time, PM Modi said the BJP on the other hand believes in putting 'nation first' unlike the INDIA bloc allies, which stands for 'family first.' PM Modi especially mentioned the names of DMK and Congress and questioned whether having a family grants a license to engage in corruption in the country.
"Congress, DMK and the parties associated with the INDIA alliance are corruption and dynastic parties. For them, their family is everything, corruption is everything," he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that leaders within the INDIA bloc have adopted a new strategy to criticize him, claiming that "Modi has no family"
Addressing a public event in Chennai, Prime Minister Modi said, "You all know the DMK, Congress and other parties. Their motto is family first. Modi says nation first and that is why people in the INDI alliance have found a new formula to abuse me. They say Modi doesn't have a family. Does this mean that those who have families get a license to commit corruption? They have developed a habit of abusing my family again and again."
PM Modi further mentioned that "he left his home not for his enjoyment but for the country. "I have left home not for myself but for the country. My family is this country, 140 crore countrymen. Jiska koi nahi wo bhi Modi Ke hai aur Modi unka hai. Mere Bharat mera Parivaar and that's why the entire country is saying today, "Main Hoon Modi ka a Parivaar..." he said.
Incidentally, Lalu Yadav, while addressing the party's 'Jan Vishwas Maha Rally' in Patna on Sunday, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi just spreads hatred in the name of religion. "These days he is talking about dynastic politics. You (PM Modi) don't have a family. You are not even a Hindu. When your mother died, every Hindu, as per tradition, shaves his beard and head. Why did you not shave? You only spread hatred in society," RJD Chief Lalu Yadav said.
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