Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his latest ‘BJP trying to abolish Constitution’ remark. “The Prince’s grandmother’s father insulted the Constitution… Then his grandmother got the opportunity to do unconstitutional acts…and they talk about the Constitution in front of us,” said PM Modi.
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Congress hits back at PM Modi over Nehru surname remark in Rajya Sabha
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Asking who in India uses their maternal grandfather’s surname, the Congress on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on the Gandhis not using the Nehru name and said he doesn’t have the basic understanding of Indian culture.
“Only god can save the country,” AICC general secretary Randeep Surjewala told reporters a day after PM Modi, in a speech in the Rajya Sabha, asked why the Gandhis were ashamed of using the Nehru surname.
“Someone who is sitting in such a responsible position does not know or understand the culture of India…will speak like this….You can ask any person in the country, who uses the maternal grandfather’s surname?” Surjewala told a press conference at the party headquarters in the presence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
“If he does not even have this basic understanding of India’s culture, then only God can save this country,” Surjewala said.
In his speech in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Prime Minister Modi targeted the Congress which has criticised the government for ignoring Jawaharlal Nehru’s efforts in nation-building.
“…if Nehru ji’s name is left out by us, we would correct our mistake as he was the first prime minister of the country. But I do not understand why anyone from his clan is afraid of keeping Nehru surname? Is there any shame in having the Nehru surname? What is the shame? When the family is not ready to accept such a great personality, why do you keep questioning us,” he said.
The prime minister also criticised Nehru and former prime minister Indira Gandhi for repeatedly using Article 356 of the Constitution to topple state governments led by non-Congress parties.
NEW DELHI: Asking who in India uses their maternal grandfather’s surname, the Congress on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on the Gandhis not using the Nehru name and said he doesn’t have the basic understanding of Indian culture.
“Only god can save the country,” AICC general secretary Randeep Surjewala told reporters a day after PM Modi, in a speech in the Rajya Sabha, asked why the Gandhis were ashamed of using the Nehru surname.
“Someone who is sitting in such a responsible position does not know or understand the culture of India…will speak like this….You can ask any person in the country, who uses the maternal grandfather’s surname?” Surjewala told a press conference at the party headquarters in the presence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
“If he does not even have this basic understanding of India’s culture, then only God can save this country,” Surjewala said.
In his speech in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Prime Minister Modi targeted the Congress which has criticised the government for ignoring Jawaharlal Nehru’s efforts in nation-building.
“…if Nehru ji’s name is left out by us, we would correct our mistake as he was the first prime minister of the country. But I do not understand why anyone from his clan is afraid of keeping Nehru surname? Is there any shame in having the Nehru surname? What is the shame? When the family is not ready to accept such a great personality, why do you keep questioning us,” he said.
The prime minister also criticised Nehru and former prime minister Indira Gandhi for repeatedly using Article 356 of the Constitution to topple state governments led by non-Congress parties.
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Nehru’s birth anniversary: Opposition slams government over absence of RS Chairman, LS Speaker from Parliament event
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Opposition on Sunday hit out at the government over the absence of Rajya Sabha Chairman, Lok Sabha Speaker and ministers from the traditional event marking the birth anniversary of those whose portraits adorn Parliament’s Central Hall.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, along with other party leaders, attended the event marking the birth anniversary of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
“Extraordinary scene today in Parliament at the traditional function to mark the birth anniversary of those whose portraits adorn the Central Hall. Speaker Lok Sabha absent. Chairman Rajya Sabha absent. Not a single Minister present. Can it get more atrocious than this?!” Congress’ chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh, who attended the event, said on Twitter.
Tagging Ramesh’s tweet, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien also hit out at the government.
“Nothing surprises me anymore. This dispensation is destroying India’s great institutions, including #Parliament one day at a time,” said O’Brien in a tweet.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to pay tributes to Nehru on his birth anniversary.
Born in 1889, the Congress stalwart remains India’s longest-serving prime minister.
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Economic woes began with Nehru’s Independence day speech: Madhya Pradesh minister on inflation
By PTI
BHOPAL: A BJP minister in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday said the problem of inflation does not arise “in a day or two”, and the economy began to go downhill with the “mistakes” of Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 1947.Minister for Medical Education Vishvas Sarang was reacting to a planned protest by the Congress over rising prices and other issues. Talking to reporters in Bhopal, Sarang said, “If the credit for increasing inflation by crippling the economy after the country’s independence goes to anyone, it is the Nehru family.”
“Inflation does not rise in a day or two. The foundation of the economy is not laid in a day or two. The country’s economy has deteriorated due to the mistakes of the speech that (the first prime minister) Jawaharlal Nehru delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 1947,” the BJP leader said.
He said that the Narendra Modi government, on the other hand, has strengthened the economy in the past seven years.
The BJP government has launched schemes for the welfare of the poor and their participation in the economy, Sarang said, adding that during the Congress regime the economy was the preserve of a few industrialists.
The inflation is down and people’s incomes have increased during the BJP rule, the minister claimed. He quipped that Congress workers should rather protest in front of “10 Janpath” (party president Sonia Gandhi’s residence).
Congress leaders in the state ridiculed Sarang’s comments.
MP Congress spokesperson KK Mishra said, “Vishwas Sarang, an eligible minister of Shivraj’s (Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan) circus, is blaming the country’s inflation on Nehru’s speech in 1947, when he was not even born. As a departmental (health) minister, can you state if Nehru was also responsible for the thousands of deaths due to lack of beds, oxygen and Remdesivir during the coronavirus pandemic?”
Narendra Saluja, another Congress spokesperson, said the BJP ministry in MP was full of weird people. “A minister starts climbing up an electricity poll to repair it, another talks about how many children a couple should have, yet another says that money should be charged for a selfie. Now, a minister is holding a speech delivered 75 years ago responsible for inflation. Why did the BJP then promise relief from inflation in its poll campaign?” he asked.
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Editorial :- Jetalee Ne Modi Se Haath Kyon Nahi Milaaya?
Why Jaitley did not get the hand in Modi? It is a matter of discussion in the Rajya Sabha.
The Congress has also started looking at this issue with political eyeglasses and the reason for not getting the hand is to mention the growing distances between Jaitley and PM Modi.
In a BBC News, the reason for this is also medical. Before discussing this, I also understand that Jaitley did not mix hands with PM Modi. Even if it happened in an unknown way.PM Modi is senior to Jaitley ji, so greeting him by not giving a hand to Modi Ji is the essence of Indian culture.
In this regard, I am remembering one sentence. When Yogi Adityanath was in Gorakhnath Math, Ashok Singhal had gone to meet him. By reaching it, Singhal ji began to touch the feet of Yogi ji. The yogi immediately stood up and said, “Singhal ji, I am your volunteer, I should touch your feet.”
Ashok Singhal ji said that I am touching the feet of the abbot of Gorakhnath Math, not Yogi Adityanath.
The second incident related to this is a few days ago. U.P. police officer worshiped Yogi ji as a guru in police uniform and worshiped him. This was discussed in the media. Opposition parties have criticized.
The office of CM Yogi explains that the police officer Yogi Adityanath did not worship the Mahant as Gorakhnath as his guru.
Since Rahul Gandhi was born in Italy, he grew up in Western culture. Nehru himself had said that he was an Englishman with education and that he is a Muslim by culture and is a devious Hindus.
Therefore, Nehru and Rahul’s Congress will not see Jaitley joining hands with Modi. The distance between them will be seen. -
Editorial :- Congress conspiracy vs nationalism Former Presidential Address on Nationalism
Former President Pranab Mukherjee joined the program of National Self-Service Association on June 7. He also addressed himself to the volunteers as a special guest. His full address was on national, nationalism and patriotism.
Discussing in this regard, he told a country, a flag is necessary. The Congress of today, ie Rahul Gandhi’s Congress, presented the draft of a separate flag for Karnataka, just before the Assembly elections in Karnataka during his reign in Karnataka. Now the Congress should think about it.
Prime Minister Modi talks about 125 crore Indians only when everyone explains the mantra of development, none of the appeasement is appealing. The Congress should also think about this.
Pranab Mukherjee also said in his speech that India’s culture, civilization is centuries old. People from many religions, sects and culture came to India from time immemorial and they were adopted by Indians and they remained this.
The Congress will have to think that India is not a new under-construction nation. That is, India is not only after 1947. India is not the only kingdom of Nehru and Gandhi dynasty. Therefore, in the true sense, Congress should understand the address of Pranab Mukherjee.
At the time of Gujarat elections and at the time of Karnataka assembly elections, the fatwa issued by Christian Archbishop should be against the nationalism and against the nationalism that Vatican has endorsed. The fatwa issued by Deoband at the time of election did not match the address which Pranab Mukherjee had addressed.
Today’s present Congress will have to leave politics of violence. The way a lion has a human’s blood, it can not live without it. In the same way, the Congress has been in power etc. It can not live without power. Therefore, it is intent on supporting violence or encouraging violence.
The way in which the vulture sees only where there is a body of a deceased person, in the same way the President of the Congress and his leaders remain in the eyes of the person whose body is dead. He does not consider the corpse of the human being as the body of any Indian, and is interpreted by a person of a dalit, some or any other religion. All this does to the politics of divide and rule for votes.
The conspiracy was hatched against the nationalists. During the Manmohan Singh government, the then State Minister of State, RPN Singh, gave a detailed account of the banned Maoist Communist Party and its 74 Front organizations in response to a question asked in the Lok Sabha. The name of the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP), which was involved in the release of Maoists, was also included. It is mentioned in the letter of the people of this organization that getting legal and financial help from the Congress. Now the question arises that why those organizations which were considered by their government as Naxalites and terrorists, were provided support from the party. The letter has been told about the cooperation that Congress gets from the release of Maoist leaders arrested in the letter. According to the letter, some Congress leaders have talked about providing legal and financial support. In this regard, it has been instructed to take the services of Jignesh Mewani. According to CHI, the Congress party was allegedly providing financial resources to the Maoists. During the raid of Pune Police, a letter was received which was written on 2 January 2018 by Comrade Ru. The Maoists are referring to the Congress in the letter written to the Yalgard Council, that the Dalit movement will help in furthering the movement. Along with that, he says that Jignesh Mewani and Omar Khalid will work on the bridge between them and the Congress. Not only this, Ambedkar’s nephew Prakash Ambedkar has also been told about how he wants to take advantage of the Dalit movement together with the Maoists.
Today, as it has been published in the newspapers that the conspiracy of killing Prime Minister Modi and both Koregaon violence are linked and the Congress has a hand in this conspiracy.
Therefore, the Congress should think again that it is justified or unfair to take the path of violence to gain power.