By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: High Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for no longer sending defense force to free up Goa from Portuguese rule for 15 years best to give protection to his “peace-loving world symbol”.
Per week prior to Goa is going to polls to elect a brand new meeting, Modi extensively utilized his respond to the Movement of Due to the President’s Cope with in Rajya Sabha to assault the Congress on freedom of speech and the way it had sacked Lata Mangeshkar’s more youthful brother from All India Radio for presenting a patriotic poem of Veer Savarkar.
He additionally cited the instance of famous lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri for jailing him for talking towards Nehru. Modi additionally charged Nehru with leaving the satyagrahis, combating for Goa’s freedom, in lurch and the use of the independence cope with to assault their motion.
“It’s been 60 years of Goa liberation. Other folks of Goa will have to be taking note of me lately. The way in which Sardar Patel made a technique for Hyderabad and Junagad, if the similar spirit was once adopted for Goa as smartly, then it do not need stayed below international rule for 15 years after India were given independence. The state were given liberated after 15 years of the rustic’s independence,” Modi said.
Bringing up media experiences of that length, he famous that Nehru didn’t take any motion towards the Portuguese career of Goa, as he concept that it could hurt his world symbol. “This was once his, Pandit Nehru’s largest concern. He concept that invading the international executive would result in destruction of his peace-loving world symbol. Let Goa endure however my symbol must no longer get dented, he concept,” Modi said within the Higher Space.
He additional mentioned: “When satyagrahis had been being fired upon via a international energy, my Indian brothers and sisters had been dealing with bullets, at the moment our high minister mentioned that I can no longer ship the Military. He declined to assist the satyagrahis. That is the torture meted out to Goa’s other folks via the Congress birthday celebration. This led to fifteen years extra of international rule in Goa. Many courageous souls needed to lose their lives as a result of this.”
Modi additionally referred to Nehru’s speech on August 15, 1955, the place he mentioned that no military assist can be despatched to assist the protesting satyagrahis and the subject can be resolved peacefully. “Other folks of my nation had been left helpless, that is what they did with Goa. The folk of Goa can’t overlook this angle of the Congress birthday celebration,” Modi added.
He additionally attacked the Congress for dispensing harsh remedy to Lata Mangeshkar’s circle of relatives. “Her circle of relatives belongs to Goa. Let me inform how they (Congress) handled her circle of relatives, the rustic must know that. Lata Mangeshkar’s more youthful brother Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar was once fired from All India Radio. His fault was once that he recited a patriotic poem of Veer Savarkar. He was once fired from All India Radio in 8 days, that is your freedom of expression,” he mentioned, attacking the Congress birthday celebration.
Election for the 40-seat meeting in Goa can be hung on February 14 and votes can be counted on March 10.