Tripura CM Saha slams CPIM for divisive rule, unleashing terror
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has criticized the CPIM for allegedly creating divisions among people and unleashing terror across the state during their rule in the state.
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury took a dig at PM Narendra Modi over his penchant for invoking mythology and likened the BJP to the ‘kauravs’ of Mahabhatra with the RSS controlling everything just as ‘sakuni’ did in the epic.
“How many names of the 100 kaurava brothers do you remember?” Yechury asked the audience. “Dushasana, Duryodhana …that’s it ….today in the BJP you get only two names,” he remarked, evoking a laughter from among the audience here.
He went on to note that the PM’s priority in Nepal, leaving aside all serious issues, was to announce a bus from Janakpur to Ayodhya. “The PM ought to have had more serious issues on mind, after all, people of Nepal has a Constitution in place now and it is no longer a Hindu kingdom,” said Yechury.
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Continuing with his swipe at the BJP and its fancy for mythology, the CPM leader said some of their leaders say there was WiFi, Internet, flying carpets in ancient times in India. “The PM had himself said at a Science Congress meet that artificial insemination, test tube babies were part of ancient India, citing the birth of Karna,” Yechury said.
The light-hearted comments and jokes during a hour-long talk had the jam-packed auditorium in peals of laughter as Yechury went on to refer to noted filmmaker Manmohan Desai who had once said his formula for churning out hit Hindi films was simple – from beginning to end do not allow the audience to think. “Today, the same formula is being adopted every day a new slogan – Make in India, New India, Swachh Bharat, Startup India – do not allow people to think,” Yechury said.
“When Rahul Gandhi says if the Congress gets a majority he will be the PM, the PM Narendra Modi dubs it as audacious. Isn’t it true in a democracy that the leader of the party with the majority becomes the CM or PM,” he quipped.
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