New Delhi:

The controversy over a video of Tejashwi Yadav consuming fish snowballed on Friday with the Prime Minister hitting out on the RJD chief, his father Lalu Yadav and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, claiming that they’re exhibiting ideas from the Mughal period. 

Accusing the opposition of indulging within the politics of appeasement and going after a specific vote financial institution, the Prime Minister additionally claimed that such movies are being posted during times thought-about auspicious by Hindus to tease and annoy most of India’s inhabitants. 

Tejashwi Yadav, who had clarified that the video was shot a day earlier than Navratri started and was uploaded to “check the IQ of the BJP and Godi media followers”, mentioned the BJP’s politics is restricted to what individuals are consuming and carrying as a result of its governments haven’t executed something for the folks. 

Addressing a rally at Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir every week earlier than the Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi referred to a video of Rahul Gandhi and Lalu Yadav cooking mutton in September final yr and mentioned in Hindi, “Congress and different members of the INDIA alliance will not be bothered in regards to the emotions of a lot of the nation’s inhabitants. Throughout Sawan (an auspicious month within the Hindu calendar), they’re going to the home of a convicted man and cooking mutton. Not solely that, they’re additionally placing up movies and teasing the folks of the nation.”

“The regulation doesn’t cease anybody from consuming something, and neither does Modi, however their intention is totally different. When the Mughals attacked, they weren’t glad with defeating the king alone. They didn’t get satisfaction till they destroyed temples… they loved doing this. In the identical means, by importing the video within the month of Sawan, they (the opposition) are exhibiting the ideas of the Mughal period, trying to tease folks and fortify their vote financial institution,” the PM alleged.

Coaching his weapons on Tejashwi Yadav, with out naming him, the PM mentioned importing a video of consuming non-vegetarian meals throughout Navratra was additionally an try in the identical path. 

“Who’re you attempting to please by hurting the emotions of individuals? I do know these folks will now bathe abuses on me for saying this, however it’s my obligation in a democracy to inform folks what is correct when traces are crossed, and I’m doing my obligation. They do that intentionally to assault the nation’s beliefs, so {that a} huge a part of the nation watches their movies and will get uncomfortable. They’ve gone past appeasement and are giving proof of their Mughal-like pondering,” the PM mentioned. 

Repeating his cost of dynastic politics, the PM mentioned the opposition doesn’t know that when the folks resolve, princes (‘yuvraj’) from huge royal households have to surrender their thrones. The ‘yuvraj’ jibe has been utilized by the PM towards Rahul Gandhi up to now as effectively. 

‘Not Speaking About Points’

Talking at a rally on Friday, Tejashwi Yadav reacted to the PM’s remarks with out naming him and mentioned that, as an alternative of speaking in regards to the points that matter, the BJP is specializing in what individuals are consuming and carrying. 

“They don’t seem to be speaking in regards to the problems with Bihar, how they may cease migration from the state or what they may do within the subsequent 5 years if they’re voted to energy. And what is going to they are saying? They’ve executed nothing in 10 years (on the Centre) and 17 years (in Bihar)… They’ll maintain speaking about what individuals are carrying and consuming, and centre their politics round it,” he mentioned.