Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Sept 14: Responding to Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s remarks about Narendra Modi, BJP National Executive Member & J&K chief spokesperson, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that such remarks should rather be taken as a compliment for Mr Modi because that only exposes how much unnerved and panicky the parties like Congress and National Conference (NC) are feeling over declaration of Mr Modi’s name as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, first of all, a politician as senior as Ghulam Nabi Azad is expected to know better than most of us that it is not in keeping with the tradition of dignified public comment to pass such personalized, derogatory remarks about the leader of another political party… and that too about a leader who happens to be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the country’s principal Opposition party.
Having said that, Dr Jitendra Singh hastened to add, what is significant to note is that such unsavory references to Narendra Modi, betray the Congress party’s frustration and panic over his declaration as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate and infact serve as an inadvertant acknowledgement of Mr Modi’s formidable status unmatched by any Congress leader. What is still more interesting, he said, is that in the State of Jammu & Kashmir, not only the Congress party but even the Kashmir-centric regional parties like National Conference are so intensely disturbed by the declaration of Modi as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate that more statements in media are carried about Modi from N C leaders than even from the BJP.
Dr Jitendra Singh went on to state that Mr Modi’s anointment by BJP National president, Rajnath Singh was in recognition of the countrywide mood not only among the party rank and file but also outside the party among the civil society and therefore it is the obligation of every right-thinking Indian to respect this decision. He said, Mr Modi’s name has come as a ray of hope for a nation yearning for a change and liberation from the menace of rising prices, corruption, scams, mis-governance and dynastic rule.
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