Mahua Moitra reffered to Atal Bihari Vajpayee‘s Parliament remark in 1972 when he had said: “The chanting of a prime minister’s name on All India Radio from morning to night, saturated propaganda on cinema screens, how people sitting in the Opposition can fight this“.
On Tuesday Trinamool Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra said in the Lok Sabha that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s worst fears have come true in the government of his own party as the government has turned Parliament into Rome’s Colosseum where the prime minister enters like a gladiator to the chants of ‘Modi, Modi‘.
Mahua Moitra said, “I would like to quote former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who in 1972 said in Parliament: These days the atmosphere in New Delhi makes one choke. It is not easy to breathe freely. The chanting of a prime minister’s name on All India Radio from morning to night, saturated propaganda on cinema screens, how people sitting in the Opposition can fight this.”
“It is India’s greatest tragedy perhaps that the very party Vajpayeeji led as prime minister today leads the government that has turned Parliament like Rome’s Colosseum,” Mahua Moitra said participating in the discussion on the demands for grants for the ministry of civil aviation 2022-23.
