Modi mode of double standards: Letting rapists walk free while exhorting citizens to uphold women’s dignity?
It has become a habit for the PM and his cabinet colleagues to perfect their speeches and style by using words of wisdom and advise all the time they walk up to the microphone What would you call a Prime Minister who speaks one thing, and does right the opposite? I know this reads like a question that would make you angry, but then you have all the right to be angry. I am flummoxed when I realise that the August 15thIndependence Day speech by PM Narendra Modi is rife with double standards. Look deeper into it, and you will also agree that double standards are what it is all about. As he took the podium at the ramparts of the historic Red Fort to celebrate the 76thIndependence Day of India, PM Modi was all praise for Nari Shakti. He went about calling for more respect to women, and he called upon the nation to assert themselves against anything that lowers the dignity of women. Even as he finished his speech, rapists who were behind bars were set free. These rapists, convicted in the B