NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi was today the favorite punching bag of Congress, which dubbed him as a frog just out of well, national embarrassment, symbol of ignorance and illiteracy and having abrasive hunger for power which has no limits.
A day after his no-holds barred attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior leaders from Congress competed with each other to take potshots at the “over-ambitious” Gujarat Chief Minister asking him to first gain acceptability within BJP.
Union Minister Anand Sharma said Modi is a “national embarrassment”.
Taking a dig at the BJP leader, AICC general secretary Shakeel Ahmed said, “After hearing Modi’s speech, it appears to me that when Singh talked about the need to fight ignorance and illiteracy, he apparently had people like Modi in mind.”
In Dehradun, another Union Minister Salman Khurshid said, “He (Modi) is like a frog just out of the well and at a loss to find the right place for himself in the big wide world.”
Ridiculing Modi for attempting to draw such a comparison, Khurshid said, “We are fighting election against the BJP.
First he (Modi) should get hold over the BJP. Right now he is not being able to convince his party BJP itself.”
Accusing Modi of acting contrary to all established norms and traditions, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said he was “over-ambitious” and “it is this very over-ambition of Modi, which is behind all this. Now there is no limit for him.
He (Modi) has crossed all limits.”
Latching on to L K Advani’s apparent disapproval of Modi’s attack on the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech, Singh also tweeted “On Modi’s Independence (Day) Speech, I and Advani ji are on the same page. Modi’s abrasive hunger for power has no limits.”
Congress MP Rashid Alvi recited an Urdu couplet telling Modi: “It is not easy to become Prime Minister for which you are longing all along. You realize this that there is sea of fire and you have to cross it.
“Only speeches and publicity cannot take Modi to Prime Minister’s chair.” -PTI
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