First published on The Economic Times: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/pm-narendra-modi-says-he-is-victim-of-ngos-conspiracy/articleshow/51081446.cms
PM Narendra Modi on Sunday said that he is a victim of a conspiracy by non-governmental organisations to “finish” him and remove his government.
BHUBANESWAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that he is a victim of a conspiracy by non-governmental organisations to “finish” him and remove his government.
“You would have seen that morning to night, I am being attacked. Some people keep at it. First, they don’t understand how Modi became a PM, how a chai wala (tea-seller) became a PM of the country; they can’t swallow that,” Modi said, addressing farmers in western Odisha’s Bargarh district.
The Prime Minister, who is travelling around the country addressing farmers, was speaking to a large crowd in the district which is recognised as the rice basket of the state.
“They are also upset because I told a few NGOs to give us an account of the foreign funds that they spend here. They ganged up and said ‘beat Modi, beat Modi, he’s asking us for an account of our expenditure’,” Modi said, in an address that otherwise focused on the PM’s crop insurance policy.
The PM further said, “They conspire from morning to night on ‘how do we finish Modi, how do we remove his government, how do we embarrass Modi?’. But my friends, you have voted me to rid the country of these diseases,” he said.
Modi compared the NGOS to black marketeers of urea, whose pilferage and diversion for use in chemical factories, he said, had been stopped by the government’s decision to coat urea with neem.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, referring to the raging debate on nationalism stirred by the arrest of a student leader from Jawaharlal Nehru University, lashed out at the PM.
