Indira, not Modi, governed like Hitler, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Nov 5, 2018, 22:21 IST
NEW DELHI: Responding to senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge's remark in which he equated Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Adolf Hitler, Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said that it was former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who governed the country like the Nazi leader and not PM Modi.
“Shocking that senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge ji equalled Modi ji with Hitler. I want to tell him it was Indira ji who governed like Hitler,” Prasad said.
Taking a dig at Congress' organisational structure Prasad said that even senior members of the party cannot function without the permission of the family (Gandhis).
"This is the same Kharge ji who can't even move an inch without the permission of the family,” the law minister said.
On Sunday, Kharge had said that PM Modi wants to do the same with India what Hitler did to Germany. "Efforts are being made to bring dictatorship in the country. What Adolf Hitler did to Germany, Prime Minister Modi wants to do the same in India,” the Congress leader had said.
The Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka was speaking at a "Samvidhaan Bachao Parishad" organised in Bandra by the Mumbai Congress.
He had accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and BJP of destroying the constitution and asserted that the Congress party would not let it happen.
"The Constitution does not belong to the people of a particular caste, religion or community, it belongs to every Indian," Kharge said.
Further targeting PM Modi, the Congress leader had said that the government is restricting the freedom of speech and curbing the press.
“Shocking that senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge ji equalled Modi ji with Hitler. I want to tell him it was Indira ji who governed like Hitler,” Prasad said.
Taking a dig at Congress' organisational structure Prasad said that even senior members of the party cannot function without the permission of the family (Gandhis).
"This is the same Kharge ji who can't even move an inch without the permission of the family,” the law minister said.
On Sunday, Kharge had said that PM Modi wants to do the same with India what Hitler did to Germany. "Efforts are being made to bring dictatorship in the country. What Adolf Hitler did to Germany, Prime Minister Modi wants to do the same in India,” the Congress leader had said.
The Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka was speaking at a "Samvidhaan Bachao Parishad" organised in Bandra by the Mumbai Congress.
He had accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and BJP of destroying the constitution and asserted that the Congress party would not let it happen.
"The Constitution does not belong to the people of a particular caste, religion or community, it belongs to every Indian," Kharge said.
Further targeting PM Modi, the Congress leader had said that the government is restricting the freedom of speech and curbing the press.
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