Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha on February 6,2020 Image: LSTV/PTI
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It was selected from a satire site, the CPI( M) leader states.
The Opposition parties on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of associating an incorrect quote to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, saying it was chosen from a satire website
” PM Modi, while responding to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address, in Parliament claimed that declarations made by two J&K ex-CMs were not appropriate. It has now been revealed that these statements have actually been taken from satire site Faking News,” CPI( M) basic secretary Sitaram Yechury wrote on Twitter.
The party’s Polit Bureau accused Mr. Modi of utilizing false charges to frame Mr. Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti. “That the Modi federal government must take option to such incorrect news for slapping the well-known Public Safety Act (PSA) belies the claims that everything is normal