PM Modi’s arrogance burning India: Rahul

New Delhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday during the discussion on no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that his "arrogance was burning India like Ravana's arrogance got Lanka burned".

"If we want to hear the voice of people, we will have to crush our arrogance as Ravana was not killed by Lord Ram but his arrogance got him killed and in the same manner Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrogance is burning the whole country."He said that it was not Lord Hanuman who burned Lanka, but it was arrogance of Ravana that got the Lanka destroyed.

Targeting the Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi said, “When I said that India is a voice of people, the heart, that voice has been murdered in India. It means Bharat Mata has been killed in Manipur. By killing the people of Manipur you have murdered Manipur. You are anti-national as you have killed Bharat Mata (mother India). “And it is the reason why your Prime Minister cannot go to Manipur as he has killed India in Manipur and in the hearts of the people of Manipur,” he said.

Gandhi made the remarks while speaking in the Lok Sabha in support of the no-confidence motion.Before starting his speech in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi first thanked Speaker Om Birla for re-instating him as the MP.

“First of all want to thank you as you reinstated me in Lok Sabha. And last time when I spoke, I might have caused you trouble. I apologise to you for that. But I spoke the truth. Today, my friends in BJP need not be scared because my speech today is not on that."

Following this, the members from the Treasury Bench objected to his comments.Referring to the words of famous poet Rumi, Rahul Gandhi said said, “Rumi had said ‘Jo shabddil se aatehai, wo shabddil me jatehai’.”“So I would not be speaking from my mind but from my heart,” he said adding that last year, for over 130 days I walked from one corner of India to another corner, not alone but with many people.

Treasury members again raised their voice on this."Initially, when I started (the Bharat Jodo Yatra), I had in my mind that walking 25 km is no big deal if I can run 8 to 10 km every day. Today, when I look at that - it was arrogance. I had arrogance in my heart at that time. But India erases arrogance, erases it in a second. So, within 2-3 days, my knees started hurting, it was an old injury. In the first few days, the wolf became an ant. 'Jo Hindustan ko ahankar se dekhnenikla, niklatha wo poora ka pooraahankargayab ho gaya (The arrogance with which I had come to see India, that arrogance was wiped out)',” he said.