With Gandhi-Bashing Speeches, PM Modi Sets Agenda For Next Election
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, spoke for about four hours in the Lok Sabha and theRajya Sabha and while being constantly heckled by the opposition, gave speeches that were clearly aimed at firing up the BJP’s base ahead of general elections.
The reaction of his cabinet colleague Rajnath Singh clearly showed mission accomplished – the Union Home Minister shook his head and pumped his fist post the Prime Minister’s speech in the Lok Sabha.
The contents of Modi’s speeches essentially consisted of attacking the Gandhi family and the Congress party with dollops of extremely problematic history – virtually a course in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s alt history – thrown in. It identified the agenda for mission 2019; senior BJP leaders said that attacking the Gandhi family and corruption would be the central theme that Modi would take to the voters.
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