While campaign for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 is in full swing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently sparked a major controversy when he accused Congress that it will distribute people's wealth among inflitrators. A political row erupted on Sunday after PM Modi, while speaking at an election rally in Rajasthan, asserted that the Congress manifesto pledged a "redistribution" of wealth following a survey. PM Modi referred to former PM Manmohan Singh's 2006 statement regarding Muslims having the "first claim" on the nation's resources, the Prime Minister accused the Congress of intending to transfer the assets of others to 'infiltrators' and "those who have more children". As a result, a CPI (M) has filed a Police complaint against PM Modi.
As per reports, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday filed a police complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his controversial remarks. Brinda Karat stated that PM Modi's speech violated Indian laws. Not only this, Karat stated that her complaint was initially refused at a local police station, forcing her to send it directly to the Police Commissioner of Delhi.
Brinda while talking a news portal informed that since her complaint was not accepted by a local Poluce station, she sent her complaint directly to Delhi Police Commissioner. "I have written a complaint and cited certain sections of the penal code of India and I have filed a Police complaint and it is really shocking that the Police station refused to accept the complaint and I had to send the complaint to the Police Commissioner of Delhi," Karat said.
Karat further outlined, "The Prime Minister is a citizen of India. The Prime Minister is not above the citizens of India. The Prime Minister is not above the law of India. The Prime Minister has to accept the laws of India. When the Prime Minister violates the laws of India which are against spreading enmity between communities, against spreading hatred between a community, he should be taken to task by the law."
Karat called PM Modi's remarks as 'hate speech or extreme hate speech.'
Notably, when a political uproar was sparked, PM Modi refrained from explicitly stating that the wealth would be distributed among Muslims. Inspite of talking about a particular religion, he talked about inflitrators.