On a day when the opposition is holding a meeting in Bengaluru to work out a united front against the BJP, and with the BJP-led NDA also scheduling a meeting of allies in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the opposition’s efforts as an attempt to ensure that democratic politics is to keep “their family first, and the nation as nothing.”
Prime Minister Modi was speaking, via video conference, at the launch of the new integrated terminal building of the Veer Savarkar Airport in Port Blair, a facility he said that will boost tourism and strengthen the economy of the archipelago.
“The credo of democratic politics is ‘for the people, by the people, of the people’ but these dynastic parties go by the mantra ‘of the family, by the family, for the family’ for them their family is first and the nation nothing. People are saying that this gathering is to promote corruption. It’s very obvious in the way that these parties can ignore whenever there are any acts of corruption, kidnapping or law and order breakdown. The moment any agency initiates action against corruption by any one of these parties, they all band together to allege victimisation, with no though give to the acts of commission. For example, The opposition parties have given a clean chit to the DMK despite corruption cases in Tamil Nadu. The Left and the Congress are also mum on panchayat poll violence in West Bengal, and left their own suffering cadre to die,” said Prime Minister Modi.
