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Modi Government: Maiden Speech

modi government: Packed with powerful punches that challenged the might of the Modi government and expressing pain over the continued lynching of Muslims, the articulate MP delivered her speech with both passion and lung power, silencing the professional hecklers and urging the Speaker to put the House in order so she could complete her speech, according to Rabble. The blows came one after another. And a powerful voice of dissent did resonate through the portals of the lower house on June 25, when first time MP, Trinamool Congress' Mahua Moitra, delivered her fiery maiden speech. She spoke of attacks on the Indian Constitution, the numerous visible signs that this country is being torn apart ; promotion of a nationalism that is superficial, xenophobic and narrow ; and throwing out as illegal immigrants people who have lived in this country for 50 years. Disdain for intellectuals Later, the shocked BJP supporters blasted the Trinamool MP on social media for questioning the government for the subjugation and controlling of the mass media; fake news and manipulating minds its resounding disdain for human rights and asked her to deliver the speech first to her own leader Mamata Banerjee, who has little appetite for dissent. In a country where Ministers cannot produce certificates to prove that they are graduates, you expect dispossessed poor people to produce papers to show that they belong to this country she asked incredulously. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.