Modi wants to keep people away from reality: Yechury

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury today accused the Narendra Modi government of keeping people away from the reality and called upon all secular parties to join hands to oust the NDA government at the Centre.

"Like Manmohan Desai's formula films, Modiji keeps people away from the reality by giving a new slogan everyday. People do not find time to think about the slogan given the previous day," Yechury said at a seminar on "Role of Left in Current National Situation".

Alleging that giving slogans was a strategy of Modi, he said, "The prime minister did not speak on the current situation of the country while campaigning in Karnataka. He often speaks on (Jawaharlal) Nehru and (Sardar Vallabhbhai) Patel instead of saying what he has been doing."
On the international relationships, Yechury said, "The prime minister's priority during Nepal visit is to run a bus from Jankipur to Ayodha and nothing else. The PM should realise that the people had changed the Hindu kingdom of Nepal to a democratic republic with a constitution."
On Modi's remark on Rahul Gandhi's statement on becoming prime minister if the Congress emerges as the single-largest party in the next general elections, Yechury said, "I do not find any wrong in it. If his party emerges the single largest party, there is nothing wrong for the Congress president to become prime minister."