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I want New India where you don’t get lynched for the food you eat: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that he wants a “New India where you don’t get lynched for the food you eat and faith you hold dear and not the one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kind of ‘New India'”.
Speaking at the Times Lit Fest here on the issue of ‘New India: Blueprint for progressive Indian’, Tharoor added that ‘New India’ must be fundamentally rooted in the idea of India that our founding fathers believed in.
Targeting the Modi government, Tharoor said: “No wonder they are talking of a New India because they made such a mess of the Old India.”
The whole point of Indian pluralism is that you can be a whole lot of things and still one thing, the commonality of major differences. For this ‘New India’ to succeed and thrive it will have to remain committed to Indian pluralism, Tharoor added.
The Congress leader attacked the government saying that under the BJP, “dissent is portrayed as seditious, protests as anti-national” which shows petty intolerance and their ideology.
The economy has faced the impact of the failure of the current government, said Tharoor, targeting the Modi government on intolerance, GST and demonetisation.
He said demonetisation was “like taking out 86 per cent of the blood out of a person’s body and then asking him to dance”.
Taking a dig at the Modi government, the Congress leader said when the BJP arrived in 2014 it was the promise of ‘acche din aane wale hai’ (good days are going to come), now in 2017 people are openly saying ‘bure din wapas le aao na’ (please get the old bad days back).
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that he wants a “New India where you don’t get lynched for the food you eat and faith you hold dear and not the one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kind of ‘New India'”.
Speaking at the Times Lit Fest here on the issue of ‘New India: Blueprint for progressive Indian’, Tharoor added that ‘New India’ must be fundamentally rooted in the idea of India that our founding fathers believed in.
Targeting the Modi government, Tharoor said: “No wonder they are talking of a New India because they made such a mess of the Old India.”
The whole point of Indian pluralism is that you can be a whole lot of things and still one thing, the commonality of major differences. For this ‘New India’ to succeed and thrive it will have to remain committed to Indian pluralism, Tharoor added.
The Congress leader attacked the government saying that under the BJP, “dissent is portrayed as seditious, protests as anti-national” which shows petty intolerance and their ideology.
The economy has faced the impact of the failure of the current government, said Tharoor, targeting the Modi government on intolerance, GST and demonetisation.
He said demonetisation was “like taking out 86 per cent of the blood out of a person’s body and then asking him to dance”.
Taking a dig at the Modi government, the Congress leader said when the BJP arrived in 2014 it was the promise of ‘acche din aane wale hai’ (good days are going to come), now in 2017 people are openly saying ‘bure din wapas le aao na’ (please get the old bad days back).
