How
Congress spokesperson can call Shri. Narendra Modi as the god of the
death ? Has he forgot that after killing of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,
Congress workers wreaked havoc across the country and killed many
brahmins and looted their belongings ? Why don't Mr. Alvi utter a word
about brutal killings of thousands of Sikhs after the assassination of
Indira Gandhi in 1984 ? - Editor
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New Delhi : Raking up
the 2002 post-Godhra riots issue, Congress on Friday appeared to compare
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi with 'Yamraj', the lord of death
in Hindu mythology.
The party also said it feared the
"consequences" if Modi was to become Prime Minister, a day after the
chief minister made the strongest-ever indication of his prime
ministerial ambitions.
"Had he intended to indicate Narendra
Modi he would not have referred to somebody riding a horse but somebody
riding a buffalo (Yama's vehicle) ... Rahulji has talked about somebody
coming on a horse, he must be referring to a messiah," AICC spokesman
Rashid Alvi told reporters.
He was replying to a question whether
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was referring to Modi when he said
in his CII speech on Thursday that no one person can come charging on
horseback and solve all the country's problems.
The invoking of 'Yamraj' barb brings
back the memories of " merchant of death" used by Congress president
Sonia Gandhi in the campaign during Gujarat assembly elections in 2007,
which was believed to have boomeranged on the party. In subsequent
elections, the party avoided references to the riots.
Ridiculing Modi's comments on Thursday
about "repaying the debt" to nation, seen as his first-ever admission of
his prime ministerial ambitions, Alvi said "We are frightened if he
wants to pay back the debt to Delhi (nation) in the same manner in which
he has paid the debt to the soil of Gujarat."
(First
Alvi should tell this nation what Congress has done to pay the debt to
the Nation ? Is it scams, widespread corruption, inflation, spread of
terrorism and misgovernance in each and every field ? - Editor)
On Thursday Modi had said it was the duty of every child to repay the debt he owes to "Mother India".
Striking a similar note, information and
broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said, he often worried about Modi's
statements and hoped he does not not do in the rest of India what "he
did" in Gujarat in 2002.
"As someone who believes in the idea of
India, who believes in the plurality of Indian ethos, who is committed
to the founding values of the Indian Constitution, I often worry about
the statements of the Gujarat chief minister."
"I hope he doesn't want to do in the rest of India what he did in Gujarat in 2002."
On questions related to the United
States' stance of not granting a visa to Modi, Tewari said he wondered
why there was an obsession related to a foreign visa.
Mocking at Modi's remarks on repaying debt, Alvi said that he can do it while working in a village also.
He went on to quote a Ghalib couplet 'haazaron khawhishen aisi, ke har khwahish pe dum nikle' (There are thousands of wishes and in pursuit of each, life could be consumed).
"If somebody thinks the debt of the
nation can be paid by only coming to Delhi, this is that person's
thinking. People have various desires," he added.
Source : TOI
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