Shiv Sena slams Modi ‘cult’

Mumbai: Reacting strongly to the pro-Narendra Modi slogans at Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) function on Wednesday, the Shiv Sena on Friday said that Modi bhakts (supporters) would lead to his fall just like those of late PM Indira Gandhi led to hers. The Sena’s latest attack was triggered by pro-Modi slogans raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) corporators during a cheque-handing ceremony at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters on Wednesday.

Maharashtra finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar handed had over a cheque of the first tranche of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation to the civic body on Wednesday.

“Today, those who are unnecessarily shouting pro-Modi slogans, are actually maligning his image. There was a time when the slogans in the name of Indira Gandhi were chanted too. Her bhakts had insulted the nation by shouting slogans like ‘Indira is India’, and that insult triggered a spark of revolution which culminated in her defeat,” the Sena said in an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamana.

Shiv Sena said one should understand the difference between being proud of Narendra Modi and being frenzied about him.

“The truth is that Indira Gandhi not only won the war against Pakistan in 1971 but also made Pakistan go down on its knees by dividing that country. We want to tell the BJP leadership that Gandhi still lost and that was because of the excessive Indira bhakti (worship) displayed by her supporters,” the edit said.

Sena has been a sulking partner of BJP and keeps taunting it by attacking almost every decision in the state and at the Centre through editorials in Saamana.