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| Mann Ki Baat: PM maintains silence on Lalit Modi row, talks about converting 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' into people's movement | | | Bharat Bhushan
Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 28: While crores of Indians turned on their radio sets this morning to listen to prime minister Narendra Modi's 'Mann Ki Baat' for its content and novelty, he did not venture anywhere near to the raging political controversy around foreign affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhra Raje for their links with the ex-IPL chief Lalit Modi.
The J&K journalists of both print and electronic media and politicians, besides other countrymen, listened to the today's Mann Ki Baat of the prime minister due to the reason that this was his first address to the nation ever since his party colleagues - Sushma and Raje - are mired in the controversy over Lalit Modi row, bringing disrepute to the party which has been boasting of providing a corruption-free governance to the people.
But in his 20-minute address this morning, he steered clear from making any comment on the controversy which has snowballed into the most serious crisis that the Modi government has faced in its one year tenure so far.
While the majority listeners were all praise for the content of his speech, they felt that he should have also touched the Lalit Modi issue because his two seniormost colleagues had been accused of helping the fugitive to run out of the country at a time when he was required by the Indian agencies in connection with the alleged misappropriation of funds in IPL. "The countrymen wanted to know about the truth of Lalit Modi row, involving a central minister and a chief minister of his party, but he simply avoided the issue," said Prof Sushil Kumar.
Instead, he called upon the people to post 'selfies' with their daughters on the Internet to strengthen the government's 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' programme and convert into a people's campaign. "I will re-tweet the selfie which carries a powerful tagline in one's preferred language," he said, while referring to a Haryana village head who had organised a competition in this regard.
"Since the initiative has been taken in Haryana, where the gender ratio is the worst, it has raised some hopes. Let us take forward the initiative taken by Sunil of Bibipur village of Haryana," he said.
The prime minister also talked about the success of International Yoga Day and the need to save rain water. |
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