Withdraw ‘Somalia statement’ if you have decency: Kerala CM Oommen Chandy to PM Modi
Thiruvananthapuram: Chief minister Oommen Chandy, on Tuesday, came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “his baseless comments” that compared Kerala with Somalia.
Chandy asked the Prime Minister to withdraw his statement, made recently at an election convention in Thiruvnanathapuram, if he had any political decency.
In a letter to Modi, Chandy said: “the people of Kerala were shocked to hear from you certain baseless comments in your recent election rally speech in Kerala. In that speech, you made statements that had nothing to do with reality and likened Kerala to Somalia. This is unbecoming of a Prime Minister and has created a great deal of agony and protest.” It turned out to be far from truth when you said that an image of a boy eating from waste dump at Peravoor in Kannur district of Kerala, stirred your mind, the letter said. “You have said so, in spite of the facilities at your disposal to check the veracity of reports on such incidents taking place in any corner of this country ,” wrote Chandy .
On Modi’s comparison of Kerala with Somalia, the chief minister said that Kerala, for the past five years, was placed above the national average in terms of economic growth and human resource development.
“Kerala’s human resource has caught the attention of the world. Yet, you compared Kerala to Somalia that is reeling under poverty and internal strife. Is not Kerala a state in India? And is it not a shame for the Prime Minister to pronounce that a state like Somalia exists in the country?” Chandy asked.
“You could have been sincere with your statements on Kerala. The high office of the Prime Minister has been graced by stalwarts from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr Manmohan Singh. And with a great deal of regret, let me point out that they never attempted anything that brought disrepute to the office of the Prime Minister like you have done,” said the chief minister.
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