BJP Responds To Opposition’s No Family Jibe Through “Modi Ka Pariwar” On Social Media
ADILABAD, New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday declared, “I have a family of 140 crore Indians,” as he hit back at Bihar former Chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s comment that he had no family. The BJP launched a “Modi Ka Parivar” campaign.
Speaking at a rally in Adilabad, Modi slammed Opposition parties as “dynastic” and said they may have different faces but “jhoot” and “loot” were common to their character.
“I raise questions on parivaarvaad (dynastic politics), and they say Modi has no family. When people come to know that I worked very late into the night, I get messages asking me not to work this hard. You in Telangana know me, the people of this country know me,” Modi said.
“I have no personal dreams, when I left home I was very young and I left with just one goal, that of working for the people of this country. I have no personal dreams, making your dreams come true is my goal,” Modi said. “That is why people love me, treat me like a member of their family. So everyone of the 140 crore Indians are my family.”
Soon afterwards, BJP leaders, including Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman and patty president J P Nadda, suffixed their names on social media profiles with “Modi Ka Parivar.” The campaign was reminiscent of the ‘Main bhi Chowkidar’ campaign ahead of the 2019 elections after Rahul Gandhi had criticised Modi.
The Congress accused the BJP of “misleading” people about real issues and said it was “waiting for Upendra Rawat, Pawan Singh and Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to add Modi Ka Parivar to their bio.”
Rawat opted out as the BJP Barabanki candidate after a viral video showed him in a compromising position with a woman, Pawan Singh is a Bhojpuri actor who dropped out of the contest on allegations of objectifying women in his films and Brij Bhushan faces allegations of harassing women wrestlers.
Sudhanshu Trivedi, a BJP national spokesperson, told reporters that opposition parties have been launching personal attacks against Modi and making such “petty” remarks against him for the past 16-17 years.
“In that series, yesterday (Sunday), at a rally in Patna, once again such petty remarks were made against Prime Minister Modi by Lalu Prasad Yadav in the presence of INDI alliance leaders. This is sad and painful,” Trivedi said at a press conference at the BJP headquarters here.
“He (Yadav) has talked about Modi's family. I want to remind him (Yadav) that, for Prime Minister Modi, the entire country is his family,” the BJP leader said, asserting that people of the country will give a fitting reply to the “political arrogance” of the opposition parties.
