• Arun Shourie accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of deliberately maintaining silence on incidents like Dadri lynching.
• Shourie also agreed with the suggestion that Modi and Amit Shah were pitting one community against another in Bihar.
• He also attacked finance minister Arun Jaitley's defence of Modi that he was the worst victim of intolerance since 2002.
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| Arun Shourie |
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Arun Shourie on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of deliberately maintaining silence on incidents like Dadri lynching while his ministerial and party colleagues kept the issue "alive" merely to win Bihar elections.
He also agreed with the suggestion that Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah were pitting one community against another in Bihar and cited a Pakistani analyst to say that while the neighbouring country was trying to get out of the pit, India was slowly going down its way.
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The former BJP insider attacked finance minister Arun Jaitley's defence of Modi that he was the worst victim of intolerance since 2002, saying this was the worst defence he had heard and Modi "in his mind will get the fullest justification for being vengeful".
Coming out in support of writers, authors and artistes returning their awards against the "climate of intolerance", he told Karan Thapar on India Today channel that they are "conscience-keepers" of the country and their motives cannot be questioned.
Praising scientists like P M Bhargava and Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy, who have expressed concern over these incidents, Shourie questioned how these people can be called rabid, a term used by Jaitley.
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