"You Want To Get Into Our Heads, Homes": Mahua Moitra's Fiery Reproof To BJP

Mahua Moitra said,"You (the BJP) are not only content with our votes. You want to get inside our heads, inside our homes, you want to tell us what to eat, what to wear, who to love... You fear an India which is comfortable in his own skin... the citizens of the Republic need to fight now".

Trinamool Congress's Mahua Moitra -- who had warned the BJP to be prepared for her speech in the Lok Sabha today – issued a fiery condemnation of the party and its governments in the Centre and at the states, sweeping across a wide array of subjects till she was cut short by the Speaker with an admonition to talk with love". The barrage came a day after Congress's Rahul Gandhi ripped into the government, holding it answerable on multiple fronts from unemployment to foreign policy and accused it of putting the nation at risk from "outside and inside".

The Trinamool MP came armed with a longer list. Raising issues from Pegasus to farmers to Dharm Sansads that focus on genocide to ban on non-vegetarian food in streets of Gujarat's municipal areas, she said, "You (the BJP) are not only content with our votes. You want to get inside our heads, inside our homes, you want to tell us what to eat, what to wear, who to love... You fear an India which is comfortable in his own skin... the citizens of the Republic need to fight now".

The BJP, she said, "fears the future" where on the eve of election, they may not be able to use government agencies to raid opposition leaders. "So you need to extend the tenure of the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), ED (Enforcement Directorate) chief, depending on how they do your bidding," she said.

"You fear a future in which bureaucrats in a state cannot be bullied by the Centre, so you amend IAS cadre rules," she added, citing two of the government's most controversial rules bitterly fought by the opposition.