Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a rather controversial comment, while addressing a Hindu religious women’s organization called the `Brahmakumaris’ on January 21. He reminded his listeners: “In the last 75 years, we only kept talking about rights, fighting for rights and wasting our time. The issue of rights may be right to some extent in certain circumstances, but neglecting one’s duties completely has played a large role in keeping India vulnerable. India lost considerable time because duties were not accorded priority….All of you must spend your energy and time on awakening the sense of duty among the people.”

Following his usual habit of making vague allegations without substantiating them, here also he failed to elaborate on what he means by `keeping India vulnerable’, and `India lost considerable time.’ Vulnerable to what? How much time was lost – and for what ? Is he complaining that the time was lost for the BJP because it could not come to power much earlier, due to the Indian people’s failure to `accord priority to their duties’ – the `duties’ according to Modi being the obligation to vote for the BJP in the past?…

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/rights-and-duties/

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