New Delhi. PM Narendra Modi claims that the world came to know about Mahatma Gandhi through the film. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday criticized the Congress and claimed that the world did not know much about Mahatma Gandhi until Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film ‘Gandhi’ was made. In an interview to news channel ABP, PM Modi claimed that Mahatma Gandhi was a great man, but the world did not know about him. He also asked whether it was not the country’s responsibility to get Mahatma Gandhi recognized worldwide in the last 75 years.
During the interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that ‘Mahatma Gandhi was a great soul of the world. In these 75 years, was it not our responsibility to tell the world about Mahatma Gandhi? No one knew about him. I am sorry, but the world first became curious about him when the film ‘Gandhi’ was made. We did not do this.’ He said that if the world knows about other leaders like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, then Gandhi was no less than them. PM Modi claimed that ‘If the world knows Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, then Gandhi was no less than them and you have to accept this. I am saying this after traveling around the world…’
After the video clip of the TV interview went viral on social media, Congress criticized this comment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh accused Prime Minister Modi of ‘destroying the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi’. Ramesh wrote on Instagram that ‘It seems that the Prime Minister lives in a world where Mahatma Gandhi was not recognized worldwide before 1982. If anyone has destroyed the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, it is the Prime Minister himself. It is his government that has destroyed Gandhian institutions in Varanasi, Delhi and Ahmedabad.’
He said that ‘It is the identity of RSS workers that they do not understand the nationalism of Mahatma Gandhi. It was the atmosphere created by their ideology, due to which Nathuram Godse killed Gandhi.’ Ramesh also said that the 2024 Lok Sabha election is a fight between the devotees of Mahatma and the devotees of Godse. He claimed that ‘the defeat of the Prime Minister and his Godse devotee colleagues is certain.’
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FIRST PUBLISHED : May 29, 2024, 17:47 IST