JAMMU, Aug. 18 -- Senior Congress leader and former DDC Suchetgarh, Taranjit Singh Tony, on Tuesday strongly condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "dimaagi Naxal" remark, alleging that the BJP government had developed a dangerous habit of branding every questioning citizen as anti-national or extremist.
"The Prime Minister's message is clear: praise the government and you are a patriot; question its policies and you become a 'dimaagi Naxal'. This is not democracy-it is the language of an insecure and authoritarian government terrified of public scrutiny," Tony said.
In his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Modi said that while armed Naxalism had been curbed, people with an ideological Naxal mindset continued to look for opportun...