Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday, May 13, resurfaced the “Neech” controversy, with an article justifying his slur against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made up in the run up to the Gujarat Assembly Elections.
In an opinion piece published in the Rising Kashmir, the Congress leader, expressed confidence that Narendra Modi would be ‘ousted’ by the voters on May 23.
Attacking the Prime Minister’s recent remark that “clouds would help Indian jets escape Pakistani radars” during the Balakot air strike, Iyer wrote, “Radar is used precisely because, whatever the weather conditions, it can pinpoint incoming aircraft. Did Modi take his senior-most Air Force officers for fools that he could trot out such ridiculous unscientific rubbish before them? And were they so pusillanimous that they dared not correct such a vacuous Prime Minister?”
“Modi needs to be warned that he is guilty of anti-national activity in trying to ride on the sacrifices of our army and CRPF martyrs in a dirty election campaign; of defaming the Indian Air Force by portraying them as complaisant idiots in his scientific illiteracy,” Iyer commented. He further wrote, “the Indian Navy as being packed at its highest echelons with traitors who would acquiesce in unauthorized foreigners being allowed to board a top of the line defence vessel.”
Aiyer, ends his post saying, “But then, why bother? Modi will, in any case, be ousted by the people of India by 23 May. That would be a fitting end to the PM. Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?”
Upset that Sam Pitroda was getting all the attention, the irrepressible Mani Shankar Aiyar pulls Pitroda’s foot out of his mouth and puts it in his…
Reiterates and justifies his ‘Neech’ comment for PM! pic.twitter.com/0oUcjegjp3
— Chowkidar Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 14, 2019
So finally …the “Jewel(मणि)” of the Gandhi family too has contributed to the “Politics of Love” of Rahul Gandhi in #LokSabhaEelctions2019 by defining His “Neech comment” on Modi ji as prophetic …
— Chowkidar Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 14, 2019
BJP Bhubhaneshwar candidate & spokesperson Sambit Patra tweeted: “So finally …the “Jewel(मणि)” of the Gandhi family too has contributed to the “Politics of Love” of Rahul Gandhi in #LokSabhaEelctions2019 by defining His “Neech comment” on Modi ji as prophetic ..”.
“Upset that Sam Pitroda was getting all the attention, the irrepressible Mani Shankar Aiyar pulls Pitroda’s foot out of his mouth and puts it in his…,” Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP’s IT cell, tweeted on Tuesday.
Not a Hindi speaker, messed up in translation: Mani Shankar Aiyar
