Farmers Movement Archive

India is a state of undeclared emergency, claims Mahua Moitra

Tribune News ServiceNew Delhi, February 8"It is not India's destiny to be ruled by cowards," Mahua Moitra on Monday said attacking the Narendra Modi government over it recent decisions, including the three farm bills and also the CAA."The coward is brave only armed with power and authority. You are not courageous but a coward. Either the government will repeal the laws or people will vote it out,” she warned, while speaking during the debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's address, which resumed today after a week-long logjam in the Lok Sabha over the three contentious laws.The Trinamool Congress leader lashed out at the government for making "hate and bigotry" a part of its narrative and alleged that the judiciary and the media have also "failed" the country.She also claimed that India is in a "state of undeclared emergency" and attacked a certain section of media quoting the recent Whatsapp chats involving the head of a private TV network and also the judiciary.Moitra, who repeatedly used terms like cowards and cowardice to slam the government for "hiding behind" power and authority and alleged that it has made India a "virtual police state" by charging critical voices with sedition, also pulled it up for slapping sedition charges against journalists."The BJP government has turned propaganda into a cottage industry," she said, questioning the government for slapping sedition against journalists and trying to take over state governments by "hook or crook".She also slammed the government for its decision to impose a nationwide lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 and inflicting "untold misery" on people with lakhs of people forced to walk to their homes hundreds of kilometres away and demanded that the three new farm laws be repealed.

The Tribune

2021-02-09