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Senior Congress leader and former union minister P Chidambaram, on Sunday, hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the latter’s comments on caste and “origins as a chaiwala”.
Chiding the Prime Minister, Chidambaram asked if PM Modi considers people a “bunch of idiots” who have suffered a memory loss?
Chidambaram’s vitriolic attack on the Prime Minister came a day after he said in Kannauj that he does not believe in politics of caste.
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“Mr Narendra Modi is the first person who became PM later who campaigned wearing his caste on his sleeve (2014): ‘I am an OBC’. Now, he says he has no caste!” Chidambaram tweeted.
Mr Narendra Modi is the first person who became PM later who campaigned wearing his caste on his sleeve (2014): “I am an OBC”.
Now, he says he has no caste!
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) April 28, 2019
“In 2014 and thereafter, he said repeatedly that he is proud that the people elected a chaiwala as PM. Now he says, he never mentioned his origins as a chaiwala! What does the PM take us for? A bunch of idiots who have large memory losses?” he asked.
In 2014 and thereafter, he said repeatedly that he is proud that the people elected a chaiwala as PM.
Now he says, he never mentioned his origins as a chaiwala!
What does the PM take us for? A bunch of idiots who have large memory losses?
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) April 28, 2019
PM Modi, while addressing rallies in Kannauj, Hardoi and Sitapur on Saturday, had “thanked” BSP supremo Mayawati, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress for starting a discussion on caste.
“Mayawatiji, I am the most backward…I request with folded hands not to drag me into caste politics, 130 crore people are my family.
“This country did not know my caste till my detractors abused me…I am thankful to Mayawatiji, Akhileshji, the Congress people and the ‘mahamilavatis’ that they are discussing my caste…I believe that taking birth in a backward caste is an opportunity to serve the country,” he had said in his rallies.
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