Modi likes to paint his political rivals as meat-and-fish-gobbling quasi-Muslims who present ‘Muslim’ manifestos, appease Muslims, and can’t hope to represent India.
By SAGARIKA GHOSE
Sawan ke mahine mein mutton banane ka mauj le rahe hain’ – in the month of Sawan or the period of Navratri, they are cooking meat and having fun, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently pronounced, pointing fingers at the Opposition. Modi also accused the Opposition of possessing a “Mughal mindset.” And when the Congress released its manifesto on 6 April, he declared that it bore the “stamp of the Muslim League.” The Muslim League, founded in the early part of the 20th century by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, is held responsible for the Partition of India in 1947.
Thus, in the Modi worldview, eating mutton is somehow against the interests of Indians. Eating fish is similarly anti-national, as was evident from the PM’s reaction to a video of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav eating fish. Not only is eating mutton and fish anti-Hindu, but the Congress party itself, is, for some reason, akin to the Muslim League.
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