The Trinamool Congress MP said the only response that the Prime Minister can give on the alliance’s name is a negative one.
Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien has launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his jibes against the opposition alliance’s INDIA name, saying they have the PM exactly where they wanted him to be.
In a video posted on Twitter today, Mr O’Brien said the only response that the Prime Minister can give on the 26-party alliance’s name is a negative one and that is just what the opposition wanted.
“Hello, Mr Prime Minister Narendra Modi. You are at it again? Attacking us with our new name INDIA, Jeetega Bharat. What’s happened? The only response you can give is a negative one. You know, Mr Modi, we’ve got you just where we wanted you to be
We wanted you to react. We wanted you to be negative, and you’re doing just that. And we’ll carry on, spreading the word INDIA
Addressing BJP workers in poll-bound Rajasthan earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that merely changing the opposition’s name to INDIA, short for the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, will not be enough to mislead people.
He also cited examples of the East India Company and the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to say that just having India in an organisation’s name does not mean it has the right intentions. He had used similar examples at a meeting of the BJP parliamentary party on Tuesday, while slamming the opposition as “directionless”.
