Congress MP Shashi Tharoor praised PM Modi’s economic and cultural perspective at the Delhi event. It is believed that PM’s praise may increase problems for Tharoor in the Congress party.
Shashi Tharoor praises PM Modi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday, November 18 once again courted controversy with the top leadership of his party by praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a post on social media platform The PM stressed that India is no longer just an ’emerging market’ but an ’emerging model’ for the world, noting its economic resilience in recovering from global events like the Corona pandemic and dealing with the conflict in Ukraine.
PM Modi was in emotional mode, not election mode.
According to Shashi Tharoor, “Prime Minister Modi said he was accused of being in ‘election mode’ all the time, but in reality he was in ’emotional mode’ to solve people’s problems.” Shashi Tharoor recalled the Prime Minister’s speech, which focused on the impact of colonialism on education in India. Tharoor said a key part of the Prime Minister’s speech focused on “reversing Macaulay’s 200-year-old ‘slave mentality’ (ie colonial mentality)”. He said the Prime Minister appealed for a 10-year national mission to restore pride in India’s heritage, languages and knowledge systems. Shashi Tharoor wrote at the end of his post, Overall, PM Modi’s address was an economic vision and a cultural call to action, which called on the nation to be ready for progress.
PM takes on Macaulay education system
Let us tell you that PM Modi had given a speech in the sixth Ramnath Goenka lecture on Monday. He also spoke at length about Macaulay’s influence on the Indian education system, which promoted English as the primary medium of instruction. PM Modi asked why India is weakening its languages? He said that it should be our determination to be free from colonial mentality in the next 10 years.
Tharoor has praised BJP leader Advani
Earlier, Shashi Tharoor had also praised senior BJP leader LK Advani. After wishing Advani on his birthday, he had said that it was wrong to limit his long public life and service to one incident. Many Congress leaders had expressed deep displeasure on this statement of Tharoor. In such a situation, it is believed that these words of Shashi Tharoor for PM Modi can once again create problems for him in Congress.