Prime Minister's message on need to forge unity not loud and clear: Gogoi

BY OUR STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Oct 26: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that Prime Minister rendra Modi’s message on unity in diversity against the backdrop of incidents of growing intolerance and hatred in the country has not been loud and clear.

In a statement here today, Chief Minister Gogoi said that Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Maan Ki Baat’ radio programme yesterday did not articulate the strong resentment brewing in the country in the backdrop of incidents of violence laced with commul and casteist overtones. “PM Modi’s Maan Ki Baat failed to send a strong message in the backdrop of volatile situation prevailing in the country with incidents of intolerance and hatred on the rise,” he said.

Chief Minister Gogoi said Prime Minister Modi, who is vocal and decisive in taking quick decisions, shows no signs of alacrity and urgency to rein in the growing incidents of intolerance and hatred that pervade the atmosphere of the country. “There was no sense of urgency in PM Modi’s message, as he did not spell out the line of action to contain the inimical forces that threaten to bring about discord in diversity,” Gogoi asserted.

Gogoi said that when certain forces are trying to impose will on others fraught with dangerous implications for the country, the Prime Minister did not underscore the need to forge in unity to promote diversity.

The Chief Minister said he failed to comprehend as to why the present dispensation at the Centre did not convene a meeting of the tiol Integration Council to discuss the volatile situation in the country and for adopting pragmatic and effective measures to tide over the situation. “If it is not a proper time to call for a meeting of tiol Integration Council, then when will the time come?” he wondered.