Prime Minister : ‘non-biological’ wonder

— N R Mohanty —

Our Prime Minister claims he is a 56-inch chested ‘non-biological’ wonder; why did he then display utter cowardice during his speech in Parliament yesterday?

Prime Minister Modi spoke for almost 100 minutes on the floor of the Lok Sabha yesterday during the debate on Operation Sindoor; he lashed out directly against Pakistan and the Congress party, the soft targets, but did not dare take the name of President Trump or China, though he mentioned them through innuendos.

The Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi had earlier targeted the government by drawing attention to President Trump’s claim — made more than two dozen times so far ( the latest being in front of Prime Minister Starmer at Scotland two days ago) — that India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire only after he threatened to snap the trade negotiations with them if they didn’t. President Trump has been quite unambiguous in his statement that he coerced the two nuclear-powered neighbours into a deal.

Pakistan has fully endorsed Trump’s claim that the US mediation led to the ceasefire on May 10. But India looks fidgety when it says that there was no outside intervention; the agreement to stop the war was reached mutually between India and Pakistan. If that is the truth, why isn’t India calling out the lie of President Trump? That’s the question LoP Rahul Gandhi asked.

What was the answer of PM Modi? That no world leader had asked him to stop the war. That was the coward Modi speaking. After all, no other country except the US has claimed to have brought about the ceasefire. Why didn’t PM Modi pointedly rebut the claim of the US and its President? Who is he afraid of and why? Why doesn’t he explain the circumstances in which it was President Trump who first announced the ceasefire agreement on 10th May evening and both Pakistan as well as India followed suit in quick succession?

Well, PM Modi cannot explain this anomaly because he is a prisoner of his own and his government’s lies!

PM Modi is equally scared of China. Even during the Galwan conflict, he would often spit fire against the ‘enemy’ but would never bring himself to utter the name of China or its leader, Xi Jinping. The same cowardice was displayed by our Prime Minister yesterday when he accused the Congress of hobnobbing with our ‘enemy’ when it was in power; he meant China but didn’t dare to mention it openly.

What does it suggest? That here is our Prime Minister who is comfortable in taking on a small fry like Pakistan day in and day out but when it comes to the big fish, he turns tail and resorts to insinuations!

Such cowardice doesn’t behove India, the most populous country of the world and the biggest democracy on the earth.