Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 26: Former Union Minister Saif-ud-Din Soz and senior Congress leader today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should introspect why the entire world evaluates him in poor light.
“Nobody can grudge Narendra Modi’s ascendency as PM of India for the second time as this position came to him through a democratic process. The fact, however, remains that the Electoral Process remained flawed primarily because the Election Commission of India remained biased in favour of the ruling class,” Soz maintained.
He said PM Modi could in his own interest consider why the entire democratic world measured India’s electoral space during the general elections 2019, such a deeply polarized process which was never seen in independent India. He mentioned that prestigious TIME magazine had described Modi as ‘India’s Divider in Chief’ and the Guardian (London) has run down Modi, among other things, for treating the minorities as ‘Second Class Citizens’.
Many a constitutional experts throughout the world felt that India got deeply polarized for the first time in its long electoral process. Then, citizens like me raise a potential question as to why PM Modi never uttered a word on the atmosphere of deep intolerance that got created during his first term as Prime Minister of India and he never uttered a word on scores of crimes of lynching and roadside killings of poor of the poorest members of a chosen minority community.
He regretted that PM Modi’s second term also started with the lynching of a couple from a poor family of Madhya Pradesh and this time too, PM Modi has no word of remorse. This is a highly tragic situation for modern day India where goons called ‘cow-vigilantes’ commit these crimes without facing ‘Law of the Land’, Soz added.
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