"Modi is the PM of India, but talks only about Pakistan," says Kapil Sibal

Sibal also mocked Modi's repeated talk about the surgical strike, saying that it should have been carried out on poverty and unemployment.

Congress leader Kapil Sibal . PTI Photo

Sibal on Thursday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having a vision directed only at Pakistan and not on India.

He accused the PM of having diminished the status of his office with his statements

Sibal also mocked Modi's repeated talk about the surgical strike, saying that it should have been carried out on poverty and unemployment.

New Delhi: Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having a vision directed only at Pakistan and not on India. He accused the PM of having diminished the status of his office with his statements. He said that the kind of dialogue the prime minister was indulging in was something he had never witnessed before in his life, news agency PTI reported. Sibal was addressing a conference in Bengaluru where he said that, nobody has “diminished” the status of the office of the Prime Minister more than Narendra Modi.  He said that PM Modi speaks only about Pakistan and not India and its people. Sibal also mocked Modi's repeated talk about the surgical strike, saying that it should have been carried out on poverty and unemployment. He said that though Modi is the PM of Hindustan, his vision seems to be directed at Pakistan. "Actually this prime minister only talks about Pakistan; he is not talking about Hindustan. He is the Prime Minister of Hindustan, our prime minister, but it looks like his vision is only directed at Pakistan," he was quoted as saying by PTI. "Speak about your people also. Talk about your own people - what you are doing for them. If he wanted to conduct a surgical strike, he should have carried out a surgical strike on poverty, on unemployment. Those are the surgical strikes that this nation needed...,"he was quoted saying further. He also lashed out at the PM and said he was ready to spend money on bullet train, but not on the poor. In the conference, he also took on PM over PNB Scam and asked why the 'chowkidar' had allowed Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, both wanted in the USD 2 billion PNB scam, to get away. Sibal lauded Congress ‘manifesto as being comprehensive for social justice.  He said it stood for economic progress and social justice and those are the pillars on which the nation can move forward.

Published at : 04 Apr 2019 06:30 PM (IST)

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