Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday broke his silence over the Bihar rally row, after a viral video allegedly showed abusive remarks directed at his late mother. He criticized Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav for bringing his mother into politics, where she had never been involved. The Prime Minister said that his mother was verbally abused on a campaign stage of the Opposition bloc and added that this act had humiliated every mother and sister.
“In Bihar, slangs were used for my mother from an RJD-Congress stage. These slangs have not just insulted my mother, but every mother and sister in India. I know you are pained as much as I am after you heard this,” the Prime Minister said after launching the Bihar Rajya Jeevika Nidhi Saakh Sahkari Sangh Limited to provide easy funds to women entrepreneurs in Bihar.
Prime Minister Modi spoke to about 20 lakh women through a video conference. He said his late mother, Heeraben Modi, worked hard to fight poverty and raise him and his siblings. “Mother would be sick, but she kept working. She would save up every penny to get clothes made for us. There are crores of such mothers in our country. The place of a mother is higher than that of gods and goddesses,” he said.
“The slang used on a Congress-RJD stage was not just for my mother, but for crores of mothers and sisters. Princes born in royal families won’t understand the suffering of an underprivileged mother and her son’s struggles. These people have been born with a golden and silver spoon. They believe power in Bihar belongs to their families. But you have blessed an underprivileged mother’s son and made him pradhan sevak. The naamdars (a phrase the Prime Minister uses to target political dynasts in the Opposition) cannot digest this,” he said, taking a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav, both from political dynasties.
