“Intellectual dishonesty” and “political deceit” is how prime minister Narendra Modi has termed the Opposition over their stance on farm laws in an interview here today.
It’s one thing if political parties make a promise but are unable to fulfil it but quite “abominable” if they made similar promises in the past but are not recanting them, said the prime minister in a blistering attack.
The BJP has all along maintained that opposition parties, including Congress, had made similar promises in the past but are now supporting the protests to extract political mileage.
“The benefits that Indians were entitled to should have reached them decades ago but they have still not reached them,” said the prime minister as he explained his government’s refusal to rollback the three farm laws.
Farmers from Punjab and Haryana, and partly from Uttar Pradesh, have been holding agitation for nearly a year now against the three farm laws, blocking approach to the Capital from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
“Many meetings have also been held in this regard but no one till now has come up with a specific point of disagreement that we want this to be changed,” he said.
On being asked about his ‘accidental’ entry to the political arena, the Indian Prime Minister remarked, “In a way, you are right…let alone reluctance to join electoral politics, I had nothing to do with the political domain itself. My surroundings, my inner world, my philosophy—these were very different. Right from my younger days, my bent was spiritual. The tenet of ‘Jan Seva Hi Prabhu Seva’ (Serving people is akin to serving the divine), which was propounded by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda always inspired me. It became a driving force in whatever I did.”
