From Kerosene lamp to nuclear energy – unheard melody from the PM
What is there for DDT on a Day when the whole Nation's attention was directed towards Parliament?
The largest Democracy in the world witnessed a Crore of Rupees inside Parliament and the Prime Minister of the Country not being able to make his reply to a confidence motion moved by him. The Prime Minister promptly uploaded his undelivered speech on his website. This was perhaps one of his best political speeches and the poor PM could not deliver it in the Lok Sabha.
The PM said in his undelivered speech,
Every day that I have been Prime Minister of India I have tried to remember that the first ten years of my life were spent in a village with no drinking water supply, no electricity, no hospital, no roads and nothing that we today associate with modern living. I had to walk miles to school; I had to study in the dim light of a kerosene oil lamp. This nation gave me the opportunity to ensure that such would not be the life of our children in the foreseeable future.
Sir, my conscience is clear that on every day that I have occupied this high office, I have tried to fulfil the dream of that young boy from that distant village.
The PM was at his vitriolic best when he said,
The Leader of Opposition, Shri L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued the office of PM. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. But on each occasion his astrologers have misled him. This pattern, I am sure, will be repeated today. At his ripe old age, I do not expect Shri Advani to change his thinking. But for his sake and India's sake, I urge him at least to change his astrologers so that he gets more accurate predictions of things to come.