Amarinder has dig at Modi’s ‘56 inch breast beating’, terms it ‘shameless
Wednesday, 02/04/2014
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Former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress candidate from Amritsar Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday had a dig at the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi’s thumping of his “56 inch chest” publicly, describing it as “chauvinistic pride and shameless arrogance”.
In his latest Facebook post, Amarinder wrote about Modi but without naming him commented, “This election season has thrown up many a xenophobes, fascists and pseudo-nationalists camouflaging as ultranationalists beating their “56 inch” chest with chauvinistic pride and shameless arrogance”.
Asserting that it was Congress which had laid down sacrifices for the country, the former Punjab CM said in his characteristic aggressive tone, “Just want to remind them that this country has been nourished and nurtured with the blood and great sacrifices of our great leaders who incidentally all belonged to the Congress”.
“Apparently that happens to be the reason of the ‘56 inch breast beating’ to pre-empt people from questioning their fascist ultra-nationalism. Unlike the Congress, our ultranationalists do not have even a single example of sacrifice for the country”, he added.
Not forgetting his BJP rival Arun Jaitely either, whom he started describing as “esteemed guest from New Delhi”, an obvious reference to his being an outsider, he said, “Not surprisingly our esteemed guest from New Delhi subscribes to no different views”.
Referring to Jaitely rejecting the suggestion of Modi apologising for 2002 riots, he said, “His outright rejection of Narendra Modi apologising for what happened in Gujarat in 2002 only betrays an intoxicated arrogance that seems to have taken better of him”.
He reminded Jaitely, innocent people were killed in Gujarat in the name of religion. “Modi was the Chief Minister heading the state administration. He does owe answers and apology”, he asserted, while adding, rather sarcastically, “rest assured, an apology neither lowers the stature of the man, nor deflates his 56 inch chest into 36 inches”.
