Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India TV.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a new slogan for the Lok Sabha elections – “I am also Modi’s family”. Just as the slogan during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections was “Main Bhi Chowkidar”, similarly in this election BJP’s slogan will be “Main Bhi Modi ka Pariwar”. The opposition parties themselves have given us the opportunity to raise this slogan. On Sunday, Lalu Yadav had raised questions on Narendra Modi’s family in the anti-Modi Front rally, saying that Modi raises the issue of familism, because Modi does not have his own family. There was a lot of applause in the rally on Lalu’s statement but Modi gave such a reply the very next day that now it became difficult for the leaders of the opposition parties to answer. Modi said in the rally of Telangana and Tamil Nadu that the entire country is his family, he had left home in his childhood, thinking that now the entire country would be his home, his aim would be to fulfill the dreams of the people of the country, he would be engaged in this work only. are engaged. After this, many BJP leaders and workers from JP Naddha, Nitin Gadkari, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Yogi Adityanath, Piyush Goyal to Smriti Irani added (Modi’s family) before their names on their Twitter handles. After this the theme of BJP’s campaign changed. Now Modi’s family will be the theme of the new campaign.
The question is, what will the leaders of the opposition parties do now? What will you answer? How will you face Modi’s fight against nepotism? This may seem like a small issue, but in every state from Bihar, Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu to Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh, leaders of opposition parties will have to face questions of nepotism. It is true that Narendra Modi in his speeches makes sharp attacks on his opponents, mentions the frauds and scams of the opposition leaders, accuses nepotism, calls nepotism the biggest threat to democracy, but never on any leader. Do not make personal attacks. What Lalu said was a personal attack on Narendra Modi and was against political decorum and decency. Therefore, without any delay, Modi declared the entire country and 140 crore people as his family. A complaint was lodged against Lalu Yadav at Gandhi Maidan police station in Patna. BJP leaders also demonstrated against Lalu Yadav across the country. Lalu Yadav bowled a full toss and Modi hit a sixer.
I am surprised that big leaders of opposition parties have not been able to understand Modi yet. Last year, in his address to the nation from the Red Fort on August 15 and thereafter on every occasion, in every rally, Modi started calling the people of the country as “my family members”. But it seems that the leaders of the opposition parties could not hold Modi’s line and by raising questions on Modi’s family, Lalu made the same mistake which Rahul Gandhi had made in the last election by questioning the Chowkidar. No one can beat Modi in such matters. Modi works like a full time Prime Minister, he never pays attention to his family, brothers, nephews and nieces. But the leaders who were sitting on the stage at the anti-Modi Front rally in Patna on Sunday are all part-time politicians. Those who gave the statement want to make Lalu Tejashwi the CM, Sonia Gandhi wants to make Rahul the PM, M.K. Stalin wants to make his son Udhayanidhi the Chief Minister, Sharad Pawar is worried about the future of Supriya Sule, Uddhav is always worried about what will happen to Aditya?
Mulayam Singh Yadav has handed over the care of the entire family to Akhilesh Yadav, Akhilesh has fielded his wife, uncle, brother, nephew, everyone… How can these people compete with Modi on the question of familyism? Let me tell you about Modi’s biological family. Modi has a total of five brothers and one sister. Narendra Modi is at number three. Sombhai Modi is the eldest. He used to work in the health department of Gujarat. Retired about twenty years ago. Amrit Modi is at number two. He worked in a private fabrication plant. He has also retired. Narendra Modi has two younger brothers. One Prahlad Modi runs a government ration shop. The youngest brother is Pankaj Modi, who was in the Information Department of Gujarat Government. He also retired nine years ago. Modi has a sister, Vasanti Ben. Lives with her family in Visnagar. None of these brothers and sisters are in politics. Leave aside Modi’s brothers and sisters. His nephews and nieces also have nothing to do with politics. Even the family members are prohibited from using Narendra Modi’s name in public. After Modi became the Prime Minister, Prahlad Modi’s daughter’s purse was stolen in Delhi but she did not tell the police that she was the Prime Minister’s niece. That is why now when the slogan will be raised across the country – “The entire country is Modi’s family” – people will demand the accounts of their families from the leaders of the opposition parties, and giving this account will be costly. (Rajat Sharma)
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