I doubt if Modi has any idea about Shaheed Bhagat Singh: Manish Tiwari

PATIALA: While speaking at a rally in Khatkar Kalan Senior Congress leader and former union minister

Manish Tewari

on Friday asked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi whether he really knew who was Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, the greatest martyr India is proud of ?


“I really doubt whether Modi has any idea about Shaheed Bhagat Singh as during the last five years he never found a few hours to pay obeisance at his memorial here”, he remarked, while adding, “I am sure, if Modi Ji knew about him, he would have certainly visited here given his exaggerated pretentions about nationalism”

Addressing a public meeting near Bhagat Singh’s memorial here on Friday, Tewari announced that the first thing he will do after getting elected, will be to move a resolution in the parliament to officially declare Bhagat Singh as the Shaheed-e-Azam. He said he was sure each and every member of the parliament irrespective of the party he belongs to will support it and cooperate in getting it through.

“His sacrifice in India’s freedom struggle remains unmatched, unparalleled and officially unacknowledged, as we have failed to recognize it on record”, he said. “Our great martyrs like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru have not got their due”, he regretted while adding, “we, at least, owe a respectable acknowledgement and gratitude towards our great martyrs without whose sacrifices we won’t be here today”.

He said that despite Modi’s great pretentions about ultra-nationalism, he has not deemed it necessary to spare an hour to pay obeisance at the memorial of this great martyr. “Or may be he doesn’t find Bhagat Singh sale-able in his scheme of things”, Tiwari remarked.

Taking a jibe at his Akali rival and sitting MP Prem Singh Chandumajra for not doing anything about the village despite adopting it as a ‘model village’ every MP was supposed to do, Tiwari alleged that Chandumajra has not even put up a single brick here, instead he fooled the people in the name of development.