Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Nov 20: Former union minister, B Jaardhan Poojary, has urged the legislators and ministers who took part in the birth centenary celebrations of former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi ,in the city on Saturday November 19, to make announcement that they will not accept allowances from the government for this event.

He was speaking to media persons who met him during the period he visited different Ashrams in the city and distributed money and fruits to the inmates there on the occasion of Indira Gandhi's birth centenary.

"The programme conducted in the name of Indira Gandhi is not being held in a simple way. To bring people in large numbers, leaders distribute lot of money. Will anyone come if they are offered a pittance? People are brought by paying Rs 500 or 1000 per person," he remarked.

Speaking about demonetization, Poojary agreed that by standing in a queue to exchange her old notes,Modi's mother had set an example. He however thought that Modi had insulted his mother by making her to stand in queue. "Is this way a mother is treated by her son. Modi, if he was so earnest, should have joined the queue and collected new notes for his mother," he opined.