Siddaramaiah insults Savarkar, compares PM Modi to Hitler; Bommai dubs remark 'cheap'

Bengaluru, January 23 :The Congress leader and the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, on Sunday compared the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to German dictator Hitler, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

 

 

The Congress leader further stated that PM Modi’s leadership would last “only a few days more”.

 

“He is the Prime Minister, let him come. We don’t have any problems. However, if he says a hundred times that the BJP will come to power, I will make it clear that will not happen,” the Congress leader said.

 

“People will not believe it, but what happened to Hitler? For a few days, he walked around pompously. What became of Mussolini and Franco? He (PM Modi) will also walk around like this for a few days,” he added.

 

 

 

Siddaramaiah also went on an unhinged rant against freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, the perennial favourite target of Congress leaders and their supremo Rahul Gandhi. He added, “Hindu and Hindutva are entirely different. Savarkar was the one who invented the word Hindutva. He was influenced by the ideology preached by Adolf Hitler.”

 

Reacting to the his remark, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that such "cheap" remarks are not a part of the state`s political culture.

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"The 130 crore population of the country is aware of Modi`s personality. Nothing will happen with such statements. Similar bad words were used against him during the Gujarat polls, but how much more talk, they will win with a big majority?" CM Bommai said while addressing the media persons in the Suttur village of Karnataka`s Nanjagud.

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