Patna: Patna: JD(U) national President Lalan Singh launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of lying about his caste identity and dubbing him as a "duplicate."
Addressing party workers at an event in Patna on Friday, Singh alleged that the Prime Minister ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections roamed around the country falsely claiming that he belongs to the Extremely Backward Class (EBC).
" But there is no Extremely Backward Class class in Gujarat. There is only a backward class there. After becoming the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he included his own caste to the OBC category. He is a duplicate and not an original," said Singh.
Accusing the Prime Minister of spreading lies while roaming around the country, the JD(u) leader whenever elections are held they-BJP- asks for votes making false claims about their development work. " But they never speak about burning issues such as unemployment and inflation. When there is a need to discuss these issues, they only speak about bringing cheetahs back to India," said Singh.
He further alleged that the Prime Minister promised to deposit Rs 15 lakh into every Indian's account by recovering the black money stashed abroad. " But what happened to that promise?" said Singh. As for the Prime Minister's claim of being a tea seller in his early life, Singh said " he can't even make tea. How can he be a 'chaiwala'?" BJP leader Janak Ram slammed Singh for his remarks against the Prime Minister.
Condemning Singh's remarks, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said, Whatever he (Singh) has said against the PM is highly objectionable and unparliamentary. Lalan Singh should not forget that he won the parliamentary election in 2019 only because of PM Modi. Such statements are not acceptable at all, the former Union minister said.
Another senior BJP leader and Union minister of state for home affairs, Nityanand Rai, claimed that JD(U) leaders are anti-poor. They just cannot digest the fact that a person like Narendra Modi, who belonged to the marginalised section of society, became the Prime Minister of India, Rai said.
The JD(U) president was, however, strongly backed by its ally RJD, with Tejashwi Prasad Yadav saying that Lalan Singh had done nothing wrong in directly attacking the PM. He did the right thing by launching a direct attack on the PM, he told reporters who sought his comments on Singh's remark.
