Union Minister Anurag Thakur on August 11 said the NDA government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was responsible for ending the culture of “bombs and bandhs” which were the result of previous Congress governments as he reacted to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement outside Parliament on Manipur.
Mr. Gandhi at a press meet in New Delhi repeated some of his remarks expunged by the Lok Sabha secretariat on Wednesday, that ‘Bharat Mata’ (Mother India) had been murdered in Manipur.
Mr. Thakur referred to Mr. Modi’s speech responding to the motion of no confidence against his government in the Lok Sabha where he had assured the ethnic strife-torn State of Manipur and its people that peace would be established soon.
“The northeast was known for bandhs, bombs and blasts during the Congress rule. Modi ji changed Congress’ Look East policy to Act East policy,” he said.
“Can any son of Mother India listen to a call for his mother to be broken into pieces? Can any Indian talk about murder of motherland?” queried Mr. Thakur.
“Mr. Rahul Gandhi does not stay in the House for even 10 minutes. He came, gave a speech and left. You went to Banswara but did not go to Bhilwara. Are you not worried about the women of Rajasthan? You differentiate between Manipur and Rajasthan, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Bihar,” added Mr. Thakur.
He said that a day before Mr. Modi’s speech in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister Amit Shah had presented a detailed view of what was taking place in Manipur, but that the Congress did not have the patience to listen and “only wanted to create unrest in the House as well and it is also creating unrest in Manipur,” he said.
