Cong hits back at PM, says Modi suppressed country’s voice for 10 years | News from India

Pawan Khera, head of the Congress’s media and publicity department, hit back at Modi, saying that the man who had “strangled the country and suppressed its voice” for ten years now “looked very weak and was seen crying” when the opposition raised its voice.

The Prime Minister began the monsoon session with a remark about the opposition that was unbecoming of his office, Khera said.

“He said the opposition had taken away the Prime Minister’s voice for two and a half hours. It is important to remind Prime Minister Modi that during his unjust rule in the last decade, the entire country was suffocated for which the public punished him,” he said in a post in Hindi on X.

“Prime Minister Modi has forgotten that he is not the Prime Minister of a majority government but the ‘third’ Prime Minister of a bipartisan NDA government,” he added.

He should also avoid the term Modi government and prove himself a democrat, said the Congress leader.

“It would be appropriate to remind Prime Minister Narendra Modi that while he was delivering this speech, the Supreme Court was hearing a case relating to the suppression of the voice of 3.2 million students in the country and the injustice done to them by his government,” Khera said, referring to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) issue.

“While you have delivered a speech full of arrogance and lies, I must tell you that over 15 Agniveers of the country were forced to commit suicide because in their hearts they dreamed of sacrificing their lives for the country,” the Congress leader said.

He claimed that every hour 19 farmers and workers in the country were forced to commit suicide by hanging.

“You are right, Mr Prime Minister, Parliament is for the country. It is not a king’s court. Therefore, the opposition is compelled to raise its voice in Parliament and express the pain of the youth, farmers, soldiers, workers, women, underprivileged, Dalits, tribals and poor of the country,” Khera said.

“It is our parliamentary duty to keep interrupting and stopping you to raise the voice of the country. You too must understand that it is important to put everything aside and listen to the issues that relate to the immediate needs and problems of the country,” the Congress leader said.

“The country has now given you a third chance to speak your mind. Lead the country’s parliament and do not create a royal court out of Sengol,” he added.

Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi attacked the Prime Minister, saying that the NEET issue was listed as the second topic in Question Hour on Monday, but Modi got up and left beforehand.

“Why did he leave? Was it not his responsibility to give an answer to this question? When we demanded the resignation of the education minister, he (Dharmendra Pradhan) arrogantly asked why he should resign when he was appointed as the education minister by Prime Minister Modi,” Gogoi told reporters outside Parliament.

Manickam Tagore, Congress party whip in the Lok Sabha, sharply criticised Modi’s remarks and said the Prime Minister should put his preaching into practice by doing positive things.

“Outside he says one thing and inside he does another,” Tagore claimed.