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Tushar Gandhi slams PM Modi’s Gandhiji statement: Who is the real ignoramus?
Updated On: 31 May, 2024 08:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
Tushar Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson slams PM Modi’s Gandhiji statement; supporters hit back equally hard
Tushar Gandhi, addressing a mass meeting in Kotva village, Varanasi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement about Mahatma Gandhi and leveraging his legacy, has set the cat amongst the poll pigeons. The opposition and Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi cleaved into Modi after the PM reportedly stated that the 1982 Richard Attenborough’s film ‘Gandhi’ was largely responsible for Bapuji’s recognition and past leaders had failed to promote or leverage his legacy. The PM had reportedly stated, “the first time the Gandhi film was made, there was curiosity about who he is. If the world knows about Martin Luther King, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, Gandhi wasn’t any less than them.”
The mirth
Tushar Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhiji’s great grandson reacted, “I burst out laughing when I heard PM Narendra Modi’s statement about Mahatma Gandhi. I was in Benares and amidst all the buzz there, this gave me some moments of mirth.” Tushar Gandhi pointed out that there were contradictions within Modi’s statement itself. He said, “The PM said Bapuji was not as popular as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. In fact, Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement was inspired by Gandhiji’s non-violence/Satyagraha ideology. Nelson Mandela is reported to have said to felt Gandhi’s presence in his cell at Robben Island.” Tushar Gandhi called Modi “ignorant” and added, “World leaders knew about Gandhi much before the Richard Attenborough film in 1982. Yet, how can one argue intellectually with an ignoramus?” He also accused the PM of using such utterances as, “diversions as he cannot answer the opposition and this is to move the focus away from the rule of inefficiency.”
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