CPI attacks Modi for criticism of PM

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Aug 15 2013 | 8:42 PM IST
CPI today criticised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Independence Day, saying he should have avoided a speech meant for "street-corner meeting".
"We saw Modi addressing an Independence Day gathering as if he was speaking at a street-corner meeting. He should have avoided that," CPI national secretary D Raja said here.
"Independence Day does not belong to one party or one government. It belongs to the people and it is a moment of joy and celebration," he said.
Modi should have addressed the people of Gujarat "in a dignified manner explaining what his government has done or wants to do".
In his Independence Day speech in Bhuj, Modi talked of a 'serial of Saas, Bahu and Damaad', an oblique reference to Robert Vadra's relationship with Sonia Gandhi and Khurshid wondering whether Modi was a "villain (Khalnayak)" and slammed the Prime Minister for India's "weak and feeble" response to provocations from Pakistan and China.
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First Published: Aug 15 2013 | 8:42 PM IST

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