New Delhi, March 4: The BJP on Monday rallied around Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its leaders suffixed their names on social media profiles with “Modi Ka Parivar” and hit back at the opposition, a day after RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav took a jibe at him for having no family.
Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman, and BJP chief JP Nadda were joined by party members from across the country in declaring themselves as “Modi Ka Parivar (Modi’s family)” on their social media accounts, as the ruling party launched a sharp counterattack on the opposition.
BJP chief ministers were among the party’s senior leaders, besides its numerous other functionaries who joined the campaign.
Many Modi-supporting social media users also made the same change on their pages.
Sudhanshu Trivedi, a BJP national spokesperson, told reporters that opposition parties have been launching personal attacks against Modi and making such “petty” remarks against him for the past 16-17 years.
“In that series, yesterday (Sunday), at a rally in Patna, once again such petty remarks were made against Prime Minister Modi by Lalu Prasad Yadav in the presence of INDI alliance leaders. This is sad and painful,” Trivedi said at a press conference at the BJP headquarters here.
“He (Yadav) has talked about Modi’s family. I want to remind him (Yadav) that, for Prime Minister Modi, the entire country is his family,” the BJP leader said, asserting that people of the country will give a fitting reply to the “political arrogance” of the opposition parties.
Some opposition parties have formed the INDIA bloc to take on the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Trivedi said Modi left his home long ago with a resolve to work for society and take India to its highest glory, considering the entire country his family.
“That’s why he never gets tired. No one feels tired while working for their family. That’s why Prime Minister Modi did not take leave even for a single day in the last 10 years,” he added.
Modi led the BJP to a bigger win in the polls while the Congress was decimated one more time in 2019.
The prime minister has been asserting that the entire country is his family, a point he made again at a rally in Adilabad in Telangana on Monday where he said that 140 crore people of India are his family.
Soon after the rally, BJP leaders added “Modi Ka Parivar” to their profiles. (PTI)
