While abroad, should PM describe previous time as Dark Age of India?

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By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 19 May 2015: #ModiInsultsIndia is the topmost trend right now on Twitter. It denotes netizens’ anger over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement before a group of Indian community in Seoul on Monday. In his address in Hind, the PM appeared describing the time before he assumed the highest office in the country in May last year as the Dark Age of India – so dark and backward that in his own words, “एकसमयथाजबलोगकहतेथे – पतानहींपिछलेजन्‍ममेंक्‍यापापकियाहैहिन्‍दुस्‍तानमेंपैदाहोगये, येकोईदेशहै” (There was a time when people would say they were born in India because they committed some sin in their previous life).

PM further continued: “(People would say) is it a country worth living in. What is this government and people? Let’s leave it and move to some other place and people would set off. People from the industry would also say that they should not do any business in this country and should not live here and most of them had put their one foot out. I don’t want to talk about the reasons behind it, neither do I want to make any political comment on it, but it is a universal fact that there was depression and hopelessness in the people and there was anger also. And today I can say with surety that eminent people from different walks of life, and leading scientists even though they are earing huge money abroad, now want to come back to India on small earning.”

He also said that in the last one year, the world has changed its view about India. “The world thinks that without ‘I’ in BRICS, BRICS is impossible. In the last 2-3 months, all global rating institutions like World Bank, IMF and Moody’s have, at different forums, unanimously said that India is the fastest growing economy of the world.”

PM Modi’s comment about India before his regime seems to have angered people. Here are a few tweets under the hashtag #ModiInsultsIndia.

Opposition condemns Modi’s remarks

Congress party has strongly criticized Prime Minister Modi for his “Indians were ashamed of being Indians” remarks.

“We have always been proud of India, Shri Modi !” tweeted Congress party on its official twitter handle

“Previous PMs used to make foreign visits too but they never used to publicize them; Request PM to get informed about previous PMs & also talk about their contribution while speaking on foreign land,” it said

Congress leader Salman Anees Soz tweeted: “Dear PM @narendramodi: If “Indians were ashamed of being Indians” why did soldiers sacrifice their lives at the border? #ModiInsultsIndia”.

Senior leader of CPI-M tweeted: “We now have a PM who was ashamed of being born in India before he was elected PM #Megalomaniac #Egomaniac #ModiInsultsIndia”

Some senior journalists have also denounced PM’s remarks.

Veteran journalist and former Chief Editor of Indian Express Shekhar Gupta tweeted: “With due respect to PM & the NRIs in Seoul cheering him, I don’t believe we were ever ashamed of being Indian at any time. Say if u disagree.”

Senior journalist and Foreign Affairs Editor of The Hindu Suhasini Haidar tweeted: “PM repeats the “Indians were ashamed of being Indians’ line at Seoul NRI meet, reference to BRICS is esp puzzling.”

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