Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at the Congress party in response to the motion of thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind’s address in the Rajya Sabha. Stating that he has been given several lectures on freedom of expression, Prime Minister Modi said he would like to remind everyone how the Congress government sacked Lata Mangeshkar’s brother from All India Radio for reciting a poem on Veer Savarkar. Had done it.
PM Modi alleged that Lata didi’s brother Pandit Hriday Nath Mangeshkar ji was fired from All India Radio for reading a poem by Veer Savarkar ji. Apart from this, Majnu Sultanpuri ji and Professor Dharampal ji were imprisoned for criticizing Nehru ji. At the same time, famous singer Kishore Kumar was imprisoned for not speaking in favor of Emergency. PM Modi said that this is your freedom of expression.
PM Modi said, “I am disclosing the history of those who talk of personal liberty. Lata Mangeshkar’s family was from Goa. But the country should know how Congress treated his family. His younger brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar was dismissed from the job of All India Radio. His fault was that he had submitted a poem on patriotism by Veer Savarkar.”
PM Modi further said that apart from these, both Majrooh Sultanpuri and Professor Dharampal were jailed for criticizing Nehru. At the same time, during the Emergency, Kishore Kumar did not bow down to Indira Gandhi and was banned from singing on the radio. We know how freedom of expression is curtailed when people do not agree with a family. The Prime Minister said that everyone knows what happened to Sitaram Kesari.
In a scathing attack on the Congress, PM Modi said that the opposition party has come under the control of Urban Naxalites in a way and the biggest threat to democracy is from family parties. He suggested the opposition party to change its name from “Indian National Congress” to “Federation of Congress”.
Let us inform that famous singer Lata Mangeshkar died on 6 February at the age of 92 at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital after COVID-19. He was cremated at Shivaji Park with full state honors in the presence of his family, PM Modi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and thousands of people from Mumbai.