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DNA Exclusive: Analysis of PM Narendra Modi’s Attack on Opposition in Lok Sabha

February 8, 2023
Bharat Times English News

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (February 7) launched a scathing attack on the opposition for targeting him over the Adani-Hindenburg issue. Responding to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the Lok Sabha, PM Modi hit out at the Congress and said its UPA rule would be known as the “lost decade”.

In today’s DNA, Rohit Ranjan of Zee News analyzes PM Modi’s nearly 85-minute speech in Lok Sabha.

Even though PM Modi did not respond to any of the allegations leveled against him in the Adani case, he targeted the entire opposition including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

He presented some figures of the country’s economic progress without giving a direct answer to the questions asked about industrialist Gautam Adani.

Citing an incident of unfurling the tricolor at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, he targeted Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and termed the padayatra as demeaning.

The Prime Minister also took a dig at the issue of unemployment raised by the Congress and said that the old party only brought laws in the name of unemployment, did not work on it.

Further, he criticized the Congress for turning ‘opportunity into a problem’ and referred to the scams during the 10-year tenure of the UPA.

Modi also talked about the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in his speech. He asked all opposition leaders to thank the ED for “uniting them”.

He said that the investigation agency did the work which the public could not do in bringing the opposition on a single platform.

PM Modi also targeted those who praised Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. He said that after the speech of some people, “the whole ecosystem starts bouncing”.

He also surrounded the Congress on one of its old statements.

Questioning the policies of the central government during the Kovid-19 epidemic, the Congress party had said that there should be a study at Harvard University on the situation in India.

On Tuesday too, Rahul Gandhi had said that there should be a study in Harvard on how the Modi government helped a businessman become so rich.

After repeatedly hearing the Congress mention Harvard, PM Modi named the Cambridge-based university and referred to a study by it titled ‘Rise and Decline of India’s Congress Party’.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised the Congress to brainstorm on the subject of the study.

During his speech, he also read a poem by Dushyant Kumar for the Congress, in which he emphasized that instead of raising issues on which the government should be criticized, the Congress is engaged in making false allegations.

PM Modi said that the Leader of the Opposition mentions unemployment every time in his address, but the irony is that the Congress during its tenure only made laws in the name of unemployment, did not take concrete steps.

Watch DNA with Rohit Ranjan for a detailed analysis of PM Modi’s Lok Sabha speech.