TMC MP Mahua Moitra: India moving towards fascism, signs everywhere if you open your eyes
In her maiden speech in Parliament, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra warned that prevalent signs suggest that India is moving towards fascism. During the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in Lok Sabha, the Krishnanagar MP said, “Only if you would open your eyes, you would see that there are signs everywhere, that this country is being torn apart.”
Quoting freedom fighter Maulana Azad, and poets Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and Rahat Indori, the former investment banker spoke about dissent, religious freedom,and media control, besides other issues. She said that the Constitution which each member of the House has “sworn to protect” is “under threat today”.…
Moitra pointed to seven signs to say that the country was sliding down a dangerous path.… She urged the members to decide “which side of history do we want us to be on”. Of the seven signs, Moitra began with the “powerful and continuing nationalism that is searing into our national fabric”, which she said “is superficial”, “xenophobic” and “narrow”. “In a country where ministers cannot produce degrees to show they graduated from college, you expect dispossessed poor people to show papers to show that they belong to this country,” Moitra said.…
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