Team News Riveting
New Delhi, February 9
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a fresh volley against the Opposition in Rajya Sabha on Thursday and said the more “keechad” (dirt) they will fling, the bigger “kamal” (lotus) will bloom.
Amid slogan shouting by MPs from TMC, Congress and other opposition parties from the Well of the House, Modi began replying to the debate on the motion thanking the President for her address to the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at the start of the Budget Session. He accused the Congress of adopting only “tokenism” to solving problems the country faced.
“Keechad unke pass tha, mere pass gulal. Jo jis ke pass tha, usne diya uchal,” Modi quoted Manik Verma’s poem in response to the allegations of the opposition parties levelled on him and his government during the discussion on the motion earlier. It meant the opposition parties had dirt and he had ‘gulal’, whosoever had whatever they flung in the air.
“Jitna keechad uchaloge, kamal utna hee zyada khilega (the more dirt you fling, the bigger kamal – the election symbol of BJP – will bloom),” he said. The Prime Minister’s speech continued even as the opposition MPs shouted slogans linking Narendra Modi to industrialist Gautam Adani and seeking a joint parliamentary committee probe into allegations levelled by the US short-seller Hindenburg Research.
Opposition parties used the debate on the motion to attack Modi and the government for aiding Adani’s phenomenal rise during the last few years. Modi, however, responded by recounting the achievements of his governments – from cooking gas to opening bank accounts for everyone and providing electricity connections.
