BJP leader Rahul Sinha responded to the allegations made by opposition parties and said the CPI(M) and Congress should stop “lecturing on right and wrong”
Kolkata: Opposition parties slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday for making a “political speech” at Belur Math. The opposition said PM Modi has forgotten to differentiate between a spiritual place and a rally out of desperation to implement the “divisive politics” new Citizenship law.
Claiming that the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act have cornered the Central government, the TMC, CPI(M) and the Congress said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have “spared the holy land of Belur Math from his divisive politics”.
“The headquarters of Ramkrishna Mission-Belur Math is known across the world as a holy place. The Narendra Modi should have abstained from making a political speech there. We strongly condemn it.
“PM Modi should not have turned Belur Math into a place of a political rally. There is some decorum in politics and public life, we need to maintain it,” Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
While addressing a programme in Belur Math on Sunday, PM Modi strongly defended the new citizenship law, saying that the dispute that has arisen over it has made the world aware of the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan.
However, he deplored that a section of the youth is being “misguided” over the CAA, which is aimed at giving and not taking away anybody’s citizenship rights.
Countering to the PM Modi’s speech, TMC leader Partha Chatterjee said, “It only proves the desperation of the Central government and that it is on the backfoot after nationwide anti-CAA agitation. We condemn such cheap politics at a religious place like Belur Math. The people of our country will never accept CAA.”
CPI(M) politburo member Mohammed Salim was hopeful that the monks of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission would condemn PM Modi’s “political speech” at Belur Math.
BJP leader Rahul Sinha responded to the allegations made by opposition parties and said the CPI(M) and Congress should stop “lecturing on right and wrong”.
“CPI(M) is a party of atheists, why is it lecturing us on Belur Math? Both the CPI(M) and Congress have no right to lecture us on what is right and wrong,” Sinha added.
On Sunday the Ramakrishna Math and Mission distanced itself from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on the CAA, asserting that it was a strictly a political body which did not respond to “ephemeral” calls.
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