Jairam Ramesh flays BJP MPs' praise of Modi, compares Parliament to North Korea's Assembly

Jairam Ramesh criticizes BJP MPs' praise for Modi, likening Parliament to North Korea and condemning the government's foreign policy.

Congress leader and senior parliamentarian Jairam Ramesh has criticised BJP MPs for "excessively" praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Parliament, saying their actions sometimes give him the feeling that he is sitting in the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, a totalitarian Communist country.

In an interview with PTI, Mr. Ramesh responded to questions related to India's foreign policy in the wake of attacks on Iran by the forces of the U.S. and Israel, alleging that all matters concerning the country — including external affairs and finance — are handled by a single man.

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The longtime Rajya Sabha MP said he sometimes felt he was "sitting in the Parliament of North Korea" — a reference to the actions of members of the SPA when their supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, enters — when he listened to speeches from the treasury benches in New Delhi.

"Today, it's a one-man show. It's a one-man band. So it's the PM's foreign policy, it's the PM's budget. Everything is the PM," Mr. Ramesh said.

The AICC general secretary in-charge (Communications) said that when he sat in Parliament in the morning, he was the first to arrive and the last to leave.