Modi trying to copy US President, says Amarinder
Wednesday, 03/09/2014
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Chandigarh: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was ‘indiscriminately trying to copy US President Barack Obama in almost everything he does’.
“The latest example was his proposed September 5 address to the students across the country on the Teachers Day. It is strange Modi shall be addressing students and not the teachers on the Teachers’ Day,” he remarked, in a statement issued, here. Amarinder pointed out that five years ago, US President Barack Obama addressed the students of the US on September 8, 2009 and now Modi was ‘trying to copy the same’. “Modi is trying to copy Obama in utter haste and hurry,” he alleged, while opining, “Otherwise, he should ideally be addressing the teachers on the Teachers’ Day and not the students for whom he could always choose some other occasion.” The former chief minister said, “This goes typically with Modi’s characteristic style of copying the US President.” He also pointed out like in the US, where all powers were vested with the President, “Modi was trying to do the same despite India being a parliamentary and not a presidential democracy”.
“The way he has assumed all the powers in himself whether deciding on foreign policy matters or those related to the Home Ministry, Modi has already hinted adequately that he wants to function like the head of a Presidential form of a government than like a Prime Minister, who is supposed to share power with his Cabinet with collective responsibility,” he added.
