Congress leader Shashi Tharoor took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon, hours after the PM urged people to switch off their lights and hold lit candles and lamps for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday, in what he said would “challenge the darkness spread by the coronavirus crisis”.
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In his tweet Mr Tharoor, who is among several Congress leaders to have taken the government to task over its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak, criticised the Prime Minister for resorting to “auspicious elements Hinduism associates with (the) number 9” and exclaimed: “#COVID19 must be more serious than we thought!”
“This is no accident: the PM spoke on Ram Navami at 9 am for 9 minutes, asked us to light diyas & candles on 5/4 at 9 pm for 9 minutes. He is invoking all the auspicious elements Hinduism associates with number 9. Back to Ram Bharose?! (trusting Lord Ram),” the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala wrote
Almost immediately after he posted the tweet, Twitter users pointed out Ram Navami (a nine-day Hindu festival to celebrate Lord Ram’s birth) ended Thursday and today was Dashami (the tenth day).
This was also Mr Tharoor’s second tweet in reply to “India’s Photo-Op Prime Minister”.
“Listened to the Pradhan Showman. Nothing about how to ease people’s pain, their burdens, their financial anxieties. No vision of the future or sharing the issues he is weighing in deciding about the post-lockdown. Just a feel-good moment curated by India’s Photo-Op Prime Minister!” he had said.
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