Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused that the oldest Indian political party Congress, he said, has been “trapped by the urban Naxals” and their “thought process has been captured by urban Naxals” making their thought-process “destructive”
Giving reply to the motion of thanks on the President’s address to Parliament, in the Rajya Sabha, he said “This is a very important time to think, where to take the nation and how to take the nation ahead, when it celebrates 100 years of Independence.” He also believed that in order to complete the resolution for this we will need collective partnership and collective ownership
While speaking on democracy, the Prime Minister said that we will never learn lessons in democracy from those who trampled over democracy in 1975. The biggest threat to our democracy is dynastic parties. When one family gets too prevalent in a political party, political talent suffers.
The Prime Minister said “some Members asked- if there was no Congress, what would happen?” “I would like to say, if there was no Congress there would be no Emergency, there would be no caste politics, Sikhs would never have been massacred, the problems of Kashmiri Pandits would not have happened,” he said.
Without naming him, Modi referred to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s speech last week in the Lok Sabha highlighting the country’s federal structure, and accused the opposition party of becoming a hurdle in the country’s march to progress.
“When Congress was in power, they didn’t allow the country’s development. Now when in Opposition, they are obstructing the development of the country. They are now objecting to the nation. If the idea of nation is unconstitutional, then why is your party called Indian National Congress? Change it to the federation of Congress,” he added.
As almost all Congress MPs got up and walked out, Modi took another shot at them, saying, “They are so used to giving others lectures, they find it tough to listen to others.” He said in a democracy one cannot just make others listen, listening to others is also needed.
He said this mindset has had “an impact on the policies of those who received the opportunity to work for the last 50 years. It gave birth to perversions. This democracy is not due to your generosity. Those who strangulated democracy in 1975 should not talk about it.”
Rebutting accusations that the government is trying to change history, he said, “We just want to correct the memory of some people, and increase their memory power. For some people history begins just a few years ago, we want to take them further back… For some people, history is restricted to a family. What can we do?” “It is not right for the country’s future, to forget its proud history,” Modi said.
Defending the government’s handling of the pandemic situation, Modi said that “till the times pandemic continues, the government is committed to spending whatever is needed to help the poorest of the poor.” But, he added that “some political parties showed immaturity in the last two years, and it has harmed the country.”
He accused some leaders of “playing games for their political self-interests” and said that they had launched a “campaign against vaccines”. “But people did not listen to them, and waited in lines for the vaccines. Country’s citizens have moved past some political leaders.”
Modi reiterates that we do not see any conflicts between national progress and regional aspirations. India’s progress will be stronger when it addresses regional aspirations keeping in mind the development of the country. When our states progress, the country progresses, he added.
The Prime Minister concluded his speech by saying that we should end the tradition of differentiation and to walk together with the same mindset is the need of time. A golden period and the whole world is looking forward to India with a hope and we should not lose this opportunity.
“The difficulty faced by Congress is that they never thought of anything else before the dynasty. We will have to accept that the biggest threat to India’s democracy is the dynastic parties. When a family is the supreme in any party, then the first casualty is that of talent,” he added.
