PM Modi Asks NDA Leaders To Steer Clear Of Controversies
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PM Modi’s advisory comes as a number of BJP leaders have stoked controversies with their remarks since the Pahalgam terror attack.
PM Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders with CMs and Deputy CMs during the NDA Chief Ministers’ Conclave, in New Delhi on May 25. (Image: PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday advised the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders to keep restraints in their public speeches and avoid making unnecessary remarks, sources said.
While addressing a high-level meeting of Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers from BJP-led NDA-ruled states in the national capital today, the Prime Minister expressed concern over unnecessary statements recently made by some of the leaders, and urged them to be more careful regarding passing statements.
“Keep a restraint on speeches and avoid unnecessary statements. Leaders should refrain from saying anything anywhere,” sources quoted PM Modi as telling the attendees of the meeting.
PM Modi’s advisory came in the wake of controversial remarks made by BJP leaders since the last month’s Pahalgam terror attack, including Madhya Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Jagdish Devda and state minister Vijay Shah.
Devda sparked a political row with his statement on Indian Army. In a viral video, Devda was talking about Operation Sindoor, launched by the Indian Army in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack that claimed 26 lives on April 22.
While speaking at a civil defense volunteers’ training program in Jabalpur, Devda had claimed that “the entire nation, including the Indian Army and soldiers, is bowing at the feet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
Another political row broke out after Madhya Pradesh Tribal Affairs Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah made a derogatory remark about Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
“Jinhone humari betiyon ke sindoor ujade the… humne unhiki behen bhej kar ke unki aisi ki taisi karwayi (Those who wiped the vermilion off our daughters’ forehead… we sent their sister to teach them a lesson),” he had said.
His statement drew a huge flak, with the matter reaching the Supreme Court. The Minister was asked to apologise to the army officer. The top court also ordered a Special Investigation Team to investigate the case. Earlier on May 14, the police registered an FIR against Shah after the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered to do so. The court had taken a suo motu cognisance of the minister’s “crass remarks”.
On Saturday, Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chander Jangra also courted the controversy by saying that the tourists who lost their lives in Pahalgam terror attack should have fought the terrorists.
He also said that women who lost their husbands to the attack “lacked” the spirit, and should have acted like ‘veerangna‘ (warrior women).
Jangra said the number of casualties in the Pahalgam terror attack would have been less had the tourists undergone the Agniveer training.
Jangra’s remark came while he was addressing a gathering in Haryana’s Bhiwani, an event organised to mark the 300th birth anniversary of Ahilyabai Holkar.
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