‘We Don’t Elect Governments To Build Temples,’ Says Kanhaiya Kumar

“PM Modi does Maan ki Baat, but he does not talk about hunger and work,” Kanhaiya Kumar said.

Former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. 

(File Photo: IANS)

Accusing the Modi government and the BJP of “murdering democracy”, representatives of more than 150 Dalit outfits on Sunday, 25 November, marched to Mumbai’s Chaityabhoomi, demanding that all the opposition parties come together to contest the polls unitedly, The Indian Express reported.

Communist Party of India’s national council member Kanhaiya Kumar, during that rally, launched a scathing attack on PM Modi.

Kumar, early on Sunday, addressed a similar gathering of 14 youth outfits, including the youth wings of both the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in the state, for “saving the Constitution”, the report said.

“PM Modi does Maan ki Baat, but he does not talk about hunger and work,” the report quoted Kumar as saying.

Kumar’s barb was in the backdrop of the 14 deaths reported recently in Jharkhand, allegedly due to starvation.

According to the report, Kumar also targeted the Modi government during the second gathering, saying “Ram ki chinta se jyaada sarkar ko aapke kaam ki chinta honi chahiye (The government should be more worried about ensuring jobs to people than the Ram temple).”

“We do not elect governments to build temples, but to construct schools, hospitals, eradicate poverty, and provide jobs,” the report quoted Kumar as saying.

(With inputs from The Indian Express)