PM Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the ‘award wapsi’ brigade, questioning their silence on the recent gang rape of a Dalit woman in Rajasthan’s Alwar. Modi, who was here to campaign for his cabinet colleague and Union telecom minister Manoj Sinha, was referring to a section of intellectuals who, in 2015, returned their national awards, alleging intolerance in the country over cattle trade, beef and lynching.
“The crime was hushed up by the Congress government as Rajasthan was going to polls. This is the truth of the Congress’s ‘nyay’ (justice),” he said, in an apparent jibe at the income support scheme — NYAY — promised by Congress if it came to power.
PM Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the ‘award wapsi’ brigade, questioning their silence on the recent gang rape of a Dalit woman in Rajasthan’s Alwar. Modi, who was here to campaign for his cabinet colleague and Union telecom minister Manoj Sinha, was referring to a section of intellectuals who, in 2015, returned their national awards, alleging intolerance in the country over cattle trade, beef and lynching.
“The crime was hushed up by the Congress government as Rajasthan was going to polls. This is the truth of the Congress’s ‘nyay’ (justice),” he said, in an apparent jibe at the income support scheme — NYAY — promised by Congress if it came to power.