‘Thought he was my grandpa’: Young girl who praised BJP with PM Modi by her side
NEW DELHI, NOV 22: A young girl was seen reciting a poem in a video beside Prime Minister Narendra Modi, praising the BJP. After the video went viral, the girl said that she was not nervous during the recital as she thought that she was speaking in front of her “grandpa”.
The video of the girl was shared by the saffron camp on its Twitter account and showed the young girl narrating a poem in Gujarati, saying, “BJP will save us, BJP will come again”.
On being asked whether she was nervous during the recitation, in an exclusive interview with India Today, the girl, Aadya, said, “I was nervous before entering the room, but when I went in front of the PM, I was not nervous at all as I thought that he was my grandpa.”
She further said that he asked me whether I wanted an autograph or a photograph and I told him that I wanted both. And so he signed the BJP sash the girl was wearing, and also got a photograph clicked with her.
The prime minister was seen smiling throughout the 57-second video as the youngster rained down praises on his party.
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“BJP, BJP, BJP, wherever you see, you will find BJP. Every discussion starts and ends with BJP. People are playing various games to defeat BJP,” she said in the video in Gujarati.
In the video, the youngster heaped praises on his party and at the end PM Modi was seen applauding her with a “shabaash (kudos)”.
The video drew massive criticism from the Congress, which accused Modi of using a child for the poll campaign. The party also asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to take cognisance of the matter.
The Congress MP from Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar Manickam Tagore criticised the video and even questioned if the NCPCR would intervene. He questioned, “Why these double standards Mr Prime Minister?”
The BJP had earlier accused Congress and Rahul Gandhi of using children for his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and had complained to the NCPCR.
-The India Today
