Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee warned the Centre on Wednesday and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on “borrowed time”. Taking a dig at the PM Modi-led central government, Abhishek Banerjee said in the Lok Sabha, “Waqt badal gya hai (the time has changed).”
Hitting out at PM Modi he said “leading a creaky, vulnerable, shaky coalition and it leads a coalition government which is just waiting to blow up.”
“Rather than investing in the future of this country, it is unfortunate that the Union government is investing for Modi’s political survival at the expense of the nation’s well-being,” Banerjee said.
He also warned that “the honourable Prime Minister is on borrowed time”. He said, “… .mark my works and I would like to end by saying thoda sabar rakhiya or kursi ka peti bandh lijiye kyunki Mausam badalne wala hai. (Wait for sometime and tie you seatbelts because the weather is about to change)”
The “kursi ka peti” dialogue is from Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Pathaan
War of Words in the Lower House
In response to this, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla engaged in a war of words in the Lower House on Wednesday with Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banarjee.
In his speech on Wednesday, Abhishek Banerjee said, “In 2020, the same Modi government unilaterally passed three contentious farm bills without any consultation with our farmers or farmer organization or any opposition party.”
Birla objected to his statement and asked to clear his “records”. He told Banerjee, “Please clear this record, the farm bills were discussed in this house for five-and-a-half hours…”
Later in the debate, Om Birla asked Banerjee to speak on the current Budget as the TMC leader went on to highlight the issues with the demonetization. “Please speak on the current budget,” Birla told the TMC leader.
Hitting back at the statement, Banerjee said,”When someone speaks about Jawaharlal Nehru 60 years ago…then you’ll speak nothing. But when I am speaking about the demonetization that happened five years ago, you are asking me to talk about the current issues… this bias won’t work.”
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