Expressing his sadness over the speech, Salman Khursheed says, “PM doesn’t know the difference between a national day and a political event…
Making a strong pitch for his third term, Prime Minister Modi, addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 77th Independence Day said, he will be back [as the Prime Minister] next year as well.
Delivering his 10th Independence Day speech, and the last such before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Modi said that “next five years are a golden moment to realise the dream of making India a developed nation by 2047”.
“The schemes for which our government lays the foundation stone, we also inaugurate them. You note it down, these days, the foundation stone I am laying down, you have left it in my destiny to inaugurate it,” Modi said exuding confidence on his return.
VIDEO | "Projects whose foundation stones are being laid by this government, will be inaugurated under this government too. You all have ensured that I will inaugurate all the projects that I have been laying foundation stones of these days," says PM Modi in his Independence Day… pic.twitter.com/F0g38N08T1
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 15, 2023
Reacting to Modi’s speech, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge took a jibe at him and called the PM “arrogant”.
Kharge who did not attend the official programme at Red Fort questioned, “Every person says that they come back again and again after winning. But making you win or lose is in the hands of people, in the hands of voters. To say in 2023, ‘I will hoist the flag once again in 2024′ is arrogance. If he keeps making comments on Opposition even on Independence Day, how will he build the nation?”
“It pains me to say that today, democracy, Constitution and autonomous institutions – all three are in great danger,” Kharge said, referring to the Modi government’s policies.
Slamming Modi, he said, “First, they talked about acche din’, then, they talked about New India’, And now they talk about ‘Amrit Kaal’. Isn’t this a name change to hide his failures,” asked Kharge.
VIDEO | "When I stand up to speak in Parliament, my mic is shut off. On one hand, they claim to abide by democratic values, on the other hand our voices are being muzzled," says Congress president @kharge during Independence Day celebrations at AICC headquarters in Delhi.… pic.twitter.com/7qNNrkS6K6
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 15, 2023
Congress MP KC Venugopal said, “In the 2024 elections people of the country will decide who is coming back & who is not. Let us at least wait for 2024…”
RJD leader and deputy chief minister of Bihar, Tejasvi Yadav said, “The PM brought politics into his speech, it is not befitting to do so on this day. People had expected the PM to speak on employment opportunities, Startup India, Make in India, doubling farmers’ income…We heard him talking about fighting corruption…People are that seeing that democracy and constitution are in danger and there is inflation & unemployment…”.
#WATCH | The PM brought politics into his speech, it is not befitting to do so on this day. People had expected the PM to speak on employment opportunities, Startup India, Make in India, doubling farmers' income…We heard him talking about fighting corruption…People are that… pic.twitter.com/ox0XwqM24w
— ANI (@ANI) August 15, 2023
#WATCH | The PM brought politics into his speech, it is not befitting to do so on this day. People had expected the PM to speak on employment opportunities, Startup India, Make in India, doubling farmers' income…We heard him talking about fighting corruption…People are that… pic.twitter.com/ox0XwqM24w
— ANI (@ANI) August 15, 2023
source: NH
