Mr. Modi’s comments in U.P. were in bad taste (“PM’s sharab comment upsets Cong.”, March 29). Mr. Modi also constantly calls the Opposition parties anti-national and Pakistani agents. This only makes India a laughing stock in front of the world. If world leaders see the Prime Minister fighting the election using Pakistan’s name, why would they take India seriously when it talks of Pakistan-sponsored terror on Indian soil? Mr. Modi must learn from former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who, despite being attacked by the Opposition, never used such language. Such a low political discourse is what emboldens young leaders to say that to be anti-Modi is to be anti-India, which is no different from Dev Kant Barooah’s remark that ‘Indira is India, India is Indira’. No leader can be equated with the nation.
N. Nagarajan,
Secunderabad
