Tharoor accuses Modi of not giving time to prepare

New Delhi, March 29

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday attacked PM Narendra Modi for not giving enough time to the people to prepare before a nationwide lockdown was imposed.

Taking to Twitter, Tharoor said in Hindi “Na hee tab taiyari thee na hee ab taiyari hai, tab bhi janata haari thi, ab bhi janata haari hai”, which translates as “Neither there was a preparation then (referring to demonetisation), nor now. That time also the common man was at the receiving end, so is today.”

The Congress MP compared the ongoing situation with the demonetisation days by sharing two pictures jointly on the micro-blogging site.

He compared the huge crowd of migrants standing in long queues to catch a bus to return to their native place at Delhi’s Anand Vihar and Ghaziabad’s Kaushambi bus terminals with the one seen outside banks during demonetisation.

On one picture he wrote “Notebandi” (Demonetisation) and on the other it was written, “Lockdown”. — IANS