New Delhi: Former Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday heaped reward on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and referred to as him a ‘statesman’. In an interview with the information company ANI, Azad, who give up Congress final 12 months and fashioned his personal political outfit Democratic Progressive Azad Party, additionally referred to as Modi ‘too beneficiant’.Â
“I must give credit to Modi. For what I did to him, he was too generous. As Leader of the Opposition I did not spare him on any issue be it Article 370 or CAA or hijab. I got some Bills totally failed but I must give him the credit that he behaved like a statesman, not taking revenge for that,” Azad mentioned.
Azad resigned from Congress in August 2022 following a distinction of opinion with the celebration management.Â
Soon after he give up the Congress, a number of celebration leaders recalled PM Modi’s lavish reward in his emotional speech in Parliament throughout Azad’s farewell from Rajya Sabha to allege some kind of agenda.
In an interview with the information company PTI on Tuesday, he hit again at his critics, who had raised eyebrows after PM Modi praised him, and mentioned that they’ve a “polluted mind” and want to return to “kindergarten to learn ABC of politics”.
A former chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, Azad additionally slammed those that couldn’t differentiate between farewell speeches and a routine one, saying their political acumen is “questionable at best”.
Referring to Azad’s scathing resignation letter, Congress Media Department Chairman Pawan Khera had attacked the previous Union minister, saying, “We have seen the love between Modi and Azad, it was also seen in the Parliament. That love has been manifested in this letter.”
In the interview on the eve of his guide launch “Azaad — an autobiography”, the previous Union minister mentioned his good relations with the prime minister dated again to the interval when he was a basic secretary of the BJP.
Azad, who retired from the Rajya Sabha on February 15, 2021, mentioned that there have been 20 audio system who spoke on his farewell day which included the prime minister.
Asked that instantly after Modi’s speech he was dubbed as an agent of the BJP, he mentioned, “That is insulting. That means that the brains of some people are polluted. Only people with polluted brains can say such things.”
In his guide, Azad speaks about his tenure as chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha and says this era gave him a possibility to grasp the prime minister each inside the home and out of doors.
“As LoP, I tried my best to raise issues of social, political, and economic importance, and confronted the PM and his colleagues every time on the floor of the House, but he never reacted to the harsh words I used against his government’s performance. I found him to be a great listener with a capacity to tolerate criticism,” mentioned Azad, including he opposed the federal government on Article 370, CAA and hijab.
