A day after Christmas celebrations, the Opposition Congress and a partner in the ruling coalition used ‘Santa Claus’ to hit out at their respective targets — Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.
While the Congress took potshots at Modi saying he is like the cinematic “Bad Santa” for gifting ‘note ban’ to the country and introduction of GST, BJP’s ally in the NDA, the Shiv Sena termed Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar a “Bad Santa Claus”. Senior Congress spokesman Manish Tewari tweeted to say that in the rest of the world “an old man with a white beard” — Santa Claus — stuffed stockings with gifts and money. But in India, a similar looking “old man with a white beard” did quite the opposite, that is, relieved people of their money and left them only with their socks. And instead of coming down the chimney, he entered homes through the TV.
This is not the first instance that Tewari has taken a stinging jibe at Modi. Earlier, Tewari had courted controversy after posting a profanity-laced tweet against PM Modi. Tewari had posted on Twitter about a gaffe committed by PM Modi abroad when he had started walking even as the national anthem was being played during a ceremonial guard of honour.
The Shiv Sena wrote to the Prime Minister asking his intervention to stop the Goa CM from taking the step of allowing Karnataka to divert the waters of the Mahadeyi river. The party termed the move by Parrikar on Christmas as that of being a “Bad Santa Claus” who is snatching the future of our children, which is river Mahadeyi.
“Santa Claus distributes gifts to bring smiles on the faces of children but our Parrikar, who is a “bad Santa Claus”, has instead snatched the future of our children by agreeing to divert the water of River Mahadeyi,” the letter States. The Sena’s letter is in response to the letter written by Parrikar recently to BJP’s Karnataka president BS Yeddyurappa softening the former’s stand on the water sharing issue.