“My country is my family and I live for the people of India,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours after he filed his nomination papers from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview with Network18, PM Modi asked the Opposition when they would come out of their families and quit dynastic politics.
The Opposition has time and again raised questions over the prime minister’s family. In March, RJD’s leader Lalu Prasad Yadav took a dig at Modi, saying that the leader has “no family”. Following Yadav’s direct jibe, NDA leaders declared themselves as Modi’s family and began suffixing ‘Modi ka Parivaar’ with their X account names.
“The question should be asked to them: You have set out for the country, when will you come out of the family? Congress’ whole campaign this election season was a family campaign despite being a part of the INDI Alliance. Be it Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh or Jammu and Kashmir, the party is running a family campaign,” PM Modi said.
The prime minister said that the fact that he is not attached to any family should not be offence but should be taken pride of. “I am a person who does not live for his family and I am a person who considers his country his family. When someone raises questions over this, I often think what their intentions are,” PM Modi said.
Targeting the Opposition, especially Congress over dynastic politics, PM Modi said that they are contesting the elections not for the nation but to strengthen their families and vote banks.
The Varanasi constituency will go to polls on June 1 during the last phase of Lok Sabha elections.
The constituency will witness a closely-watched contest between BJP’s PM Modi, Congress’ Ajay Rai and Bahujan Samajwadi Party’s Athar Jamal Lari. Notably, Shyam Rangeela, the comedian-turned-politician who is widely known for his impersonation of PM Modi, will also run up against the prime minister as an independent candidate.
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You have set out for the country, when will you come out of the family: PM Modi asks Opposition
