Ahead of the final phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today came down heavily on the Opposition during a rally. Citing the the ongoing Ukraine crisis, he noted that “dynasts always look for opportunities to serve their self-interests”.
“When some challenges crop up before the nation, these dynasts look for their political interest in it. If India’s security forces and people fight a crisis, they do everything to make situation more critical. We saw this during pandemic and today during Ukraine crisis…blind opposition, continuous opposition, acute frustration, and negativity have become their political ideology,” PM Modi said in Varanasi.
Those who live in palaces, Modi contended, did not know the troubles that a poor mother goes through in absence of a toilet at home. “They have to either think of answering nature’s call before sunrise or bear the pain throughout the day and do so only after sunset,” he noted.
Over the last few days, as war broke out in Ukraine and thousands of Indians found themselves stranded, the government had launched Operation Ganga to undertake evacuations. The Opposition (primarily the Congress) however allege that the Centre’s reaction had been late in coming.
“Such shameful treatment of compelled students is an insult to the entire country. This bitter truth of Operation Ganga has shown the real face of Modi government,” tweeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi earlier today, sharing a media report which claimed that students were asked to clean toilets to return to India.
“Instead of questioning Indian students, why doesn’t the Modi government question itself? The students trapped in the crisis have shown the truth of the brutality and failure of the government,” asked another tweet by Gandhi. The Wayanad MP had earlier said that “evacuation is a duty and not a favour”.
