Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment on Mahatma Gandhi that world knew of him only after a film has received backlash from opposition leaders .
Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra in sharp retort on X wrote , If nobody knew Gandhi before the film absolutely nobody knew
@narendramodi before the Gujarat riots.
If nobody knew Gandhi before the film absolutely nobody knew @narendramodi before the Gujarat riots.
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) May 29, 2024
Earlier , Prime Minister Narendra Modi sparked a controversy with his remark that “the world did not know of Mahatma Gandhi till the film ‘Gandhi’ was made”.
During an interview to a TV channel, Modi had said, “…Across the world, Mahatma Gandhi was a great person. Was it not our responsibility in these 75 years to ensure that the entire world knows Mahatma Gandhi. I am sorry to say that no one knows about him. The first time when the film ‘Gandhi’ was made, it was then that there was curiosity across the world as to who this person was. We have not done so… .”
“It was the task of this country to ensure that if the world knows about Martin Luther King, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela ji, then Gandhi was no less. One has to agree and I am saying this after travelling across the world that India should have got that importance due to Mahatma Gandhi.”
