PM Modi Minister made a scating attack against the Congress party

PM Modi Minister made a scating attack against the Congress party as he recounted various instances of curbing peoples’ freedom of speech including those of the public personalities amidst the emergency period.

Responding . to the Motion of thanks to President’s address in Rajya Sabha, PM Modi said that amidst the Emergency, a very famous film star Dev Anand was asked by the Congress party to support imposition of Emergency in the country but Dev Anand refused to do it… and this is the reason why Doordarshan banned all his movies from telecast on Doordarshan.

Continuing the attack on the Congress, he said, “Nehru’s ‘stop-gap’ government amended constitution to curb freedom of speech, did not even wait for elections.”

In the midst of Nehru tenure as the PM, a workers strike was held in Mumbai. Amidst that strike, the famous poet Majrooh Sultanpuri recited a poet. After this, he was put in jail. Famous actor Balraj Sahni was also jailed only because he participated in a protest demonstration at the time. Hridaynath Mangeshkar brother of Lata Mangeshkar, had written a poem on Veer Savarkar and wanted to sing it on Akashvani but was banned from Akashvani for life.

Adding further “If you analyse Congress, the principle of their politics has always been to shorten someone else’s line, and because of this, they destabilised governments… The path they chose to shorten other’s line, those who were with them in Lok Sabh (polls), are now running away from them.

He further went on to add that “Welfare of poor, deprived our priority, Modi worships those ignored by others and that his
government is standing firm, committed towards neo-middle class. We want to enhance their capabilities.

News Edit KV Raman