New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke about a number of social issues on the Mann Ki Baat radio programme, but chose to avoid any reference to the political storm generated by the Lalit Modi issue, prompting the Congress to warn him that the issue would continue to “haunt” him.
The CPI and AAP also attacked him for remaining silent on the matter. In the monthly programme, the PM refrained from speaking on politics or the recent controversies surrounding Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj over the Lalit Modi issue.
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Among various topics, he talked about the girl child, voicing concern over the sex ratio in 100 districts of the country, with the situation being more serious in Haryana. He pitched for a mass campaign to save the girl child. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad expressed disappointment over the PM’s “failure” to speak on the Lalit Modi controversy.
