PM Modi Praises RSS, Cong Says – Desperate Attempt to Please Before 75th Birthday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed the nation from the Red Fort for the 12th consecutive time and hoisted the national flag there. In his speech, the PM made several announcements as well as promises. He also mentioned the RSS, over which the opposition has now targeted him. Meanwhile, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh called the PM’s speech stale and also said that it was worrying. He said the Prime Minister appeared tired today and would soon retire.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, posting on social media platform X (Formerly Twitter), wrote, “The same repeated slogans like ‘Viksit Bharat’, ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ are being heard year after year, but there have been no concrete results.

He added that the promise of a Made-in-India semiconductor chip has been made countless times each time with great fanfare, each time without results. This promise today was in fact made alongside a big lie something that has become PM Modi’s hallmark because India’s first semiconductor complex was already established in Chandigarh in the early 1980s.

Talk of protecting farmers now hollow: Jairam

Jairam Ramesh said that the talk of protecting farmers now sounds hollow and unreliable because the Prime Minister had earlier tried to impose the three black farm laws. Even today, there is no solid announcement regarding legal guarantee for MSP, fixing MSP at 50 per cent profit over cost, or debt waiver. On job creation too, only showy statements have been made, with no solid and credible roadmap.

Collapse of basic institutions like EC: Jairam

The Congress leader said that the Prime Minister gave a long speech on unity, inclusion, and democracy, while he himself has been the planner and responsible for the collapse of our core constitutional institutions like the Election Commission. He has yet to answer the basic questions raised by the Leader of the Opposition regarding the credibility of the electoral process. In Bihar, lakhs of voters are being deprived through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list. His claims of empowering states sound hollow when the Centre is constantly weakening the federal structure and is busy sidelining or toppling opposition-led state governments.

He said that Independence Day should be a moment of vision, clarity, and inspiration, but today’s address was a dull mix of self-praise and selective stories, with no honest mention of the country’s deep economic distress, unemployment crisis, and rapidly rising economic inequality.

Will the PM retire soon?

Jairam said that the most worrying aspect of the Prime Minister’s speech today was taking the name of the RSS from the ramparts of the Red Fort – which is a direct violation of the spirit of a constitutional, secular republic. He said this was nothing but a desperate attempt to please the organisation before his 75th birthday next month. Since the events of 4 June 2024, the Prime Minister, who has been decisively weakened, is now entirely dependent on Mohan Bhagwat’s goodwill so that his tenure can be extended after September. The politicisation of a national occasion like Independence Day for personal and organisational gain is extremely harmful to our democratic values. Today the Prime Minister appeared tired and will soon retire.