Hyderabad: Soon after Congress leader Shashi Tharoor stoked up controversy by likening Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a ‘scorpion’, Andhra Pradesh finance minister has added fuel to the fire by terming Modi an ‘anaconda’. This has led the BJP to criticise the opposition for indulging in a ‘competition’ to abuse the PM.
AP finance minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Yanamala Rama Krishnudu made the remark during a press conference on Saturday, where he attacked the PM for the recent CBI and RBI issues.
The news agency ANI quoted the minister as asking who could be ‘a bigger anaconda than Narendra Modi?”, as a reference to him “swallowing up institutions like CBI, RBI etc.”
As a counter to Krishnudu’s attack, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that there seems to be an ongoing ‘competition’ among opposition parties to see “who will abuse Modi ji more.”
“Every time Modi ji is targeted, he comes out stronger, and history is witness to this,” he said and accused the opposition of indulging in attacking the Prime Minister as they had no talking points against the Centre.
For his latest remark against Modi, while at the Bangalore Literature Festival, Shashi Tharoor was slapped with a criminal defamation complaint in a Delhi court. He has retaliated by saying that the suit was an attempt to “throttle freedom of speech.”
