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Prime minister, Narendra Modi, is finding a respected supporter base outside his party fold. The new fan club includes those from the Congress to the Left parties.
Congress leader and the winning MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, said he was impressed by Modi's speech, delivered during the latter’s election as the leader of the BJP parliamentary party.
“I am impressed by Narendra Modi’s conciliatory and inclusive statements. We must ensure he lives up to them and works for the benefit of all Indians,” Tharoor tweeted today. The opposition should co-operate with him to implement his strategies for development, he goes on.
However, most of the 588 re-tweets criticised Tharoor’s reaction as a kind of opportunism. Earlier, Innocent, who was elected from Chalakkudi LS seat, said if Modi does good things for the country, we must support him.
There is no mistake in that. If we are totally against him and the BJP government, it will not benefit Kerala. So for all good things, we should co-operate with him, the CPI(M)- backed Independent MP said.
KT Jaleel, a Left front MLA, also praised Modi on his facebook. He criticised the style of the Left Parties in the election. The position of the Left parties in the parliament is weak at this crucial period. There is no strength for the Left parties and Congress even to shout in the House.
If Pranab Mukherji was the prime minister for the last ten years Congress would not have suffered such a pathetic fall, he wrote. CPI(M) rank and file are dissatisfied over this comment as only helps to spread pessimism among the CPI (M) workers. The MLA denied this and said that he intended just to analyse the outcome of the election.
Meanwhile, Chandrika, the official Malayalam daily of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has vehemently criticized Rahul Gandhi for the pathetic defeat of Congress in the election. In today’s editorial, the newspaper said, Rahul could not touch the soul of India through his campaigns. Rahul’s was only a One Man show that did not inspired the people of India.
He believed only a small section of leaders , especially youngsters, in the party. Most of the experienced and senior leaders were sidelined which also caused the defeat in the election.
IUML is the second partner in the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala. Congress was not able to put forward a political slogan that attracts the people as it had done in the previous elections, the editorial says.
