‘Proud to Be a Dimaagi Naxal’: Opposition Leaders After PM Modi's ‘Isolate Them’ Remarks
Opposition leaders said the remark stigmatizes dissent and renewed demands to implement 33% women’s reservation without waiting for delimitation.
- On Saturday, opposition leaders criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 80th Independence Day speech, accusing him of using the label "dimagi Naxals" to target dissent and questioning his linking of women's reservation to delimitation.
- During his address at the Red Fort, Modi claimed Maoist extremism was "breathing its last" and alleged that people with a "Naxal mentality" had occupied influential government positions, while appealing for 33 per cent women's reservation.
- CPI General Secretary D. Raja denounced the "dimagi Naxal" label as an attempt to "stigmatise dissent," while TMC leader Saket Gokhale called the remarks a "cheap shot" targeting critics on Independence Day.
- Regarding women's reservation, CPI Rajya Sabha MP P. Sandosh Kumar asserted that 181 of 543 seats must be reserved for women without delay, alleging the BJP deliberately linked it to delimitation.
- TMC leader Kirti Azad highlighted unfulfilled promises on prices and unemployment over 12 years, while CPI General Secretary M. A. Baby accused the government of violating the Constitution in its treatment of Maoists.
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