The country is now in a situation where one cannot breathe in the midst of a valueless, power-centric and aggressive political environment. In the midst of such a situation, an exceptional atmosphere was witnessed in the upper house of the country on Thursday.
Whatever the underlying purpose, the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Upper House today has paved the way for some of the stinking atmosphere of politics to some extent. However, time will tell whether his loyalists will go ahead on this route or whether he himself can maintain this atmosphere.
Narendra Modi has repeatedly praised his former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh from the Prime Minister’s post. Not only appreciating but also addressing the MPs, he said former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a role model for them.
The ruling BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced a trust vote on August 8, 2023 in Parliament over the Manipur issue. Facing this trust vote, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was forced to come to Parliament and speak on the Issue of Manipur.
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh came to Parliament with an illness and cast his vote despite knowing that the opposition would not win the trust vote. At that time, the Congress was also severely slams by the BJP for this.
But today Prime Minister Modi praised Manmohan Singh for that act. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself praised the ideals shown by Dr. Manmohan Singh. He said, “Manmohan Singh has inspired me. He came in a wheelchair with an ill body and voted. He has strengthened the country’s democracy.
Manmohan Singh’s dutifulness as a Rajya Sabha MP and the way he led the country and Parliament as prime minister will always be remembered by the country. He will always inspire. – This is the statement of Narendra Modi.
I don’t remember seeing such an environment in Parliament in the last nearly a decade. In the name of the Parliament session, there was only a gross atmosphere and personal attacks in the name of criticism of each other.
From Nehru to Manmohan Singh, former prime ministers were only attacked and criticised. None of their work was recognised.
People are judging how successful Manmohan Singh is as prime minister. But there is no question of his skills and the way he did politics. As prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh also gave the status to be given to his former prime ministers.
After listening to Prime Minister Modi’s speech in today’s Upper House, I remember Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee also said in Parliament a lot about Jawaharlal Nehru.
He said he sat in the back seat when he was elected as an MP for the first time. In the meantime, criticising Nehru one day he said that your personality has churchillo and chamberlain too.
Nehru did not show any aggression towards Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his remarks. Similarly, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee took over as foreign minister, someone removed the image of Nehru who was earlier in the ministry. But Vajpayee ordered that image be re-installed at the site.