Sonia Gandhi deserves Ratna for helping Modi come to power: Kiran Nagarkar

Mumbai, Oct. 31: Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer Kiran Nagarkar on Saturday joined the voices against Dadri lynching and other “incidents of intolerance” but blamed Congress president Sonia Gandhi for “paving the way” for Narendra Modi’s ascension as the Prime Minister.

In a sarcastic note, he said, “I want to say that our Prime Minister should give Sonia Gandhi the Bharat Ratna, because without her help, these people (BJP) wouldn’t have been able to come to power.”

Mr Nagarkar, who received the 2001 Sahitya Akademi award for his book Cuckold (1997), did not spare Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi from his remarks either. “Then there is our Rahul baba. About him, less said the better,” the 73-year old writer, known for the Ravan and Eddie trilogy, said during an interaction organised by a Marathi TV channel.

“The Dadri incident was terrible. There should have been a large-scale opposition after that,” he said. “We have woken up, albeit late,” he said.

“You kill a person, injure his son and after two to three weeks you say, yes, what happened wasn’t right,” the noted novelist said.