A Goa Congress legislator, known for his BJP leanings has compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to former PM Indira Gandhi.
Speaking during a congratulatory motion to congratulate former Gujarat CM on becoming India’s Prime Minister, Mauvin Godinho who represents the industrialised Dabolim constituency said that Modi’s rise is the first of a Prime Minister who means business since Indira.
Iconic Congress leader and daughter fo India’s first Prime Minister Nehru, Indira Gandhi, served as the Indian PM on three occasions.
“He (Modi) has shown that he means business. We had seen something like this when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister,” Godinho said, speaking on a BJP-sponsored motion congratulating Modi on becoming PM during the Monsoon Session of the State legislative Assembly.
Congress MlA Dabolim Mauvin Godinho also lauded the former Gujarat Chief Minister’s work ethic, strong leadership and and his ability to think “out of the box”.
Godinho has been at loggerheads with the Congress leadership in Goa over the last few months and had even refused to campaign for the party’s South Goa candidate Aleixo Reginaldo during the recently concluded lok Sabha poll.
Godinho said that there was a lot to learn from Modi, especially his “work culture, ability to grasp subjects and control over his ministers”.
“He works 18 to 20 hours a day. Which of our Ministers work like thisIJ Only our CM works as hard as the Prime Minister. Other Ministers are not even available to public. Is this the example you are learning from your own PM,” Godinho asked the Treasury Benches.