Guwahati, Oct 1 (NIE): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, no stranger to controversial comments, has now said that one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brothers drives an auto-rickshaw while another runs a grocery store.
In a video that has emerged of Deb’s speech on Saturday in Agartala on the occasion of “Parakram Parv” — marking the second anniversary of the surgical strike operation — he is purportedly saying in Bengali, “He has an old mother, but he does not keep her at the PM House. He has a brother who still drives an auto.”
Praising the PM, Deb says, “He [Modi] has been the Prime Minister for four years and before this he was a chief minister for 13 years, but still one of his brothers runs a grocery store while another drives an auto. His mother still lives in a 10X12 house. Is there any other PM in the world like this?”
Deb adds that he too belongs to a “poor family”. He then goes on to promise that Tripura would be a ‘model state’ in the next three years.