Two days after Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to visit drought-hit Marathwada, the Shiv Sena has said that it would have been better had the PM spared two days to visit the region.
“Even though Mr. Modi has become a world leader, it is because he is the Prime Minister of Hindustan. Therefore people of this country feel that he must stay put in his own country and work at a time when people are facing drought,” said an editorial in Sena mouthpiece Saamna on Monday.
It taunted the PM over his busy schedule of election rallies in West Bengal and Assam. “People of Marathwada are sad because he (Mr. Modi) hasn’t been able to reach there despite their agony. That’s the reason why people like Mr. Kumar get a chance to speak.”
The editorial reminded Mr. Modi that his unfulfilled election promises have emboldened a ‘tinpot’ like Mr. Kumar to criticise him. “Mr. Kumar’s speeches lack fire, though they emanate a lot of smoke…But we don’t agree with his criticism of Mr. Modi… What is his locus standi… People like Mr. Kumar will come and go, then what?”
“Mr. Modi had made tall pre-elections promises…the return of black money, creating 20 million jobs every year, ‘achhe din’, and other things. But after becoming the PM, he failed to deliver… So now, people like Mr. Kumar can talk of selling off Mr. Modi on OLX,” the editorial said.
Frowning on the JNUSU leader’s stringent criticism of the PM, the Sena urged the BJP to do some serious ‘soul-searching’ on who is responsible for breathing life into the entity called Mr Kumar.
While it was proper on Mr. Kumar’s part to highlight the plight of Marathwada people, the Sena wondered who is behind him and making him talk on all these issues.
