PM’s brother takes on Modi government
SIBLING RIVALRY? Modi’s younger brother says BJP has failed to live up to people’s expectations, lacks will
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi’s younger brother Prahlad on Tuesday lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre, saying it had “failed” to live up to peoples’ expectations and lacked the will to resolve their problems.
Prahlad participated in a protest at Jantar Mantar organised by the All India Fair Price Shop Federation, of which he is the vice-president, to press for their charter of demands.
“You worked hard to ensure that it (BJP) gets majority in the Lok Sabha and still you have to come to Jantar Mantar to stage a dharna. I think it is a failure of the NDA government,” he said.
Referring to Modi, he said: “What I am doing is not revolt of a brother against a brother. For me, my brother is worth worshiping. I respect him. But I am in a profession and had to come to this platform to raise my voice.”
Making a veiled attack on the Modi govt on the issue of corruption, he said almost all national political parties nurtured graft. “Now when the Narendra Modi government has come to power with the message of fighting corruption, we have been forced to take to the streets,” Prahlad said.
He warned the BJP of electoral reverses in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar assembly polls if the partyled government did not heed to peoples’ problems.
“If the party turns a blind eye to us, then what BJP faced in Delhi will happen again in UP and Bihar. I am a member of BJP but I protest against the wrong policies of the national parties,” he said.
Prahlad said the BJP government lacked the determination to solve the problems of PDS shop owners. “Hum ye nahin kehte ye sarkar nikkami hai, Narendra Modi nikkame hain, hum aisa nahi kehte (We have not said this govt is worthless. We also don’t say that Modi is worthless.) But it does not have the will to address our problems,” he said.