On Friday, the newly formed Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh removed PM Modi’s portrait from the Guna circuit house. Days after coming to power, Congress party has started to showcase its petty politics by insulting the PM’s post.
ऐसी निकृष्टता की उम्मीद नहीं थी @OfficeOfKNath जी आपसे।
यह गुना का सर्किट हाउस है, जहां से आपकी सरकार आते ही देश के प्रधानमंत्री की तस्वीर हटा दी गई।प्रधानमंत्री देश के होते हैं, किसी पार्टी के नहीं।
और यह सर्किट हाउस किसी पार्टी का दफ्तर भी नहीं है @BJP4MP @BJP4India @INCMP pic.twitter.com/eReklfFZj2— लोकेन्द्र पाराशर Lokendra parashar(Modi ka parivar (@LokendraParasar) December 29, 2018
Guna Circuit House is the district headquarters of the MP government. Besides PM Modi, there were portraits of other Prime Ministers and leaders including Pt. Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bhimrao Ambedkar, Governor Anandiben Patel, and President Ram Nath Kovind. Interestingly rather intentionally, only PM Modi’s portrait has been removed from the Guna Circuit House. Political corridors are filled up with gossips as soon as people came to know about it.
गुना के सर्किट हाउस से प्रधानमंत्री @narendramodi की तस्वीर को हटाना वाकई छोटी सोच का प्रतीक है। गुना @JM_Scindia का लोकसभा क्षेत्र है @OfficeOfKNath मुख्यमंत्री है।ज़िम्मेदारी दोनो की बनती है। https://t.co/ck0xvoxqZG
— Vikas Bhadauria (@vikasbha) December 29, 2018
Not a single statement has yet come out regarding this issue; even the officials and employees of the Circuit House have maintained silence on the issue. It seems that the removal of the portrayal of PM Modi is merely out of vendetta politics. In contrast, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was foreign minister of India under former PM Morarji Desai, he restored the portrait of Pandit Nehru in the South Block.
While speaking about the incident in the Parliament former PM Vajpayee said, “Friends in Congress may not believe this, but a portrait of Nehru would hang in South Block. I would see it whenever I passed by. At that time, I was new, and would sit back in the House. Sometime to get an opportunity to speak, I also would have to stage a walk out. Then I made a place for myself, and moved ahead. And, when I became the foreign minister, I saw that the portrait was missing from the gallery. I then asked where did it (portrait) go? I got no reply. That portrait was restored”.
In the same speech, he further shed a light on his gracious relation with Pandit Nehru besides being in the opposition. He said, “It is not that there was no difference of opinion between us. And, it would surface seriously during discussions. Once I had told Pandit Ji that his personality was mixed in nature and that there was both a (Winston) Churchill and a (Neville) Chamberlain in him. In the evening, I met him at a banquet, and he (Nehru) told me it was a solid speech and walked away smiling. Today, to do such criticism is to invite enmity. People will stop talking”.
The incident of removing the portrait of PM Modi signifies the difference between the two parties. While Congress always practices vendetta politics, the BJP has always put India first irrespective of the politico-religious differences. Whenever Congress party comes to power, it tries to distort the history of glorious personalities having no link with the Grand Old Party. Some of them include Subhash Chandra Bose, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Rajiv Dixit, and many more, yet to surface.