People who think of degrading India’s Republic Day should be driven out, Goa’s Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said.
Referring to the recent protest conducted by Delhi Chief Minister ahead of Republic Day, Parrikar also questioned their “duplicity” through using slogans like Bharat mata ki Jai. “People who are thinking of degrading India’s Republic Day should be driven out by civil society. It is a dangerous trend,” the Goa Chief Minister said.
Parrikar, who was speaking at the inauguration of a school premises in Panaji was particularly critical of Kejriwal’s aide Prashant Bhushan his comments on the Kashmir issue. “When you say Bharat Mata ki jai it applies to the whole of India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari,” Parrikar said The AAP has claimed that the comments on Kashmir were misinterpreted.
Parrikar also said that it was improper for Arvind Kejriwal as Chief Minister to as a custodian of the Indian Constitution had no business violating the prohibitive section 144 of the Indian Penal Code during the recent protests in the national capital. Parrikar has over the past few interactions with the public and media become increasingly intolerant towards differing opinions, with his recently calling the media specially national television channel NDTV as being paid by the Congress.