Guwahati:
In a scathing attack on the main Opposition Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the people are his masters and “remote control” and it is before them that he expresses his pain. Amid the massive row over the verbal abuses targeting him and his late mother, Heeraben Modi, the Prime Minister said he is a devotee of Lord Shiva and will “swallow the poison” of abuses.
“I know, the whole Congress ecosystem will target me and say Modi is crying again. The people are my God; if I don’t express my pain before them, where will I do it? They are my masters, my deities, and my remote control. I do not have any other remote control,” he told a gathering in Assam’s Darang after inaugurating several projects.
The Prime Minister has been targeting the Congress over verbal abuses made from an RJD-Congress stage during a recent political campaign in poll-bound Bihar. The Opposition party has stressed that none of its leaders were on the stage when the remarks were made. Thereafter, a row erupted over Congress creating an AI-generated video featuring the Prime Minister’s mother.
The remote control reference is significant. In the past, Prime Minister Modi has used the expression to accuse former UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi of controlling former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has also alleged that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is remote-controlled by the Gandhis, a charge Congress has repeatedly trashed
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