‘MERA BHARAT, MERA PARIVAR’

Adilabad/New Delhi: In a major counter-offensive to the opposition’s ‘no family’ jibe, PM Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that 140 crore Indians are “my family” and attacked the “dynasty parties”, saying that they may have different faces, but “jhoot and loot” was their common character.

PM Modi’s comments came a day after RJD supremo Lalu Prasad said, “What can we do if Modi does not have a family of his own? He keeps bragging about Ram temple. He is not even a true Hindu. In Hindu tradition, a son must shave his head and beard upon demise of his parents. Modi did not do so when his mother died”. Addressing public rally in Adilabad, he said he had dedicated himself to public welfare as a “sevak”. Countering Oppn’s point that he had no family, PM said ‘140 crore people of this nation are my family. Mera Bharat, Mera Parivar. My life is like an open book. People of nation know it.’