‘Aapko toh ghar mein sunne nahi milega’: PM Modi’s praise, dig and shayari dedication for Kharge | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dedicated a shayari to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha while also praising and taking a dig at him in the same breath.
During his reply to Motion of Thanks to the President’s address in Rajya Sabha, PM Modi directly targetted the Gandhi family in his over one-and-a-half hour speech. He recalled instances from Nehru government and the Emergency to accuse Congress of crushing of crushing the freedon of expression.
In between an all-out attack, PM Modi praised Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge for his years of work for public.
“Kharge ji is a senior leader and I will always respect him. Spending so many years as a public personality is not a small thing,” PM Modi said.
As Kharge tried to take a dig over this statement, PM Modi said, “Aapko aapke ghar mein toh yeh baatein sunne nahi milengi, main hi bata deta hun. (You won’t get to hear all this at you home [read: party], so let me at least say this.”

“I was watching Kharge ji recite a poem, and when the Speaker asked him when it was from, he thought the pain of Congress was hidden inside, so he decided to express it through Neeraj’s poetry,” PM Modi said.
“I would like to recite a few lines from the poetry of the late poet Neeraj ji for Kharge. These poems were written during the time of Congress government. Neeraj ji said, ‘Hai bahut andhera, ab suraj nikalna chahiye, jis tarah se bhi ye mausam badalna chahiye.”