Goebbels?

[Guest guest]

'Oppostion leaders are like Goebbels'

 

"Nobody can be Goebbels and nobody can be Taliban in this

country,India. The country has a cultural history of thousands of

years and such Goebbels and such Talibans would come and go, but the

country will go on its own path," he said.

 

New Delhi, Nov 26

 

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan on Monday the equated

Opposition leaders to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels,

prompting former prime minister Chandrashekhar to observe that it was

as objectionable as the use of 'Talibanisation' by the Opposition.

 

Replying to a discussion during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha on the

controversy, Mahajan said he challenged the opposition leaders on

fact, but they could not give a single line substantiating that the

Government was re-writing history.

 

"Now, this is like Goebbels. Without giving even one proof of

changing the history, they are making allegations," he said.

 

No sooner than the minister made the comment, Chandrashekhar (SJP)

took exception to it and said the word 'Goebbels' was as

objectionable as the word 'Talibanisation' used by the Opposition.

 

The Opposition might not be behaving in a decent matter. "But this

word should not come from the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. It

does not create a congenial atmosphere in this House because they are

not there (in the House, having staged a walk-out) and he is saying

that they are behaving like Goebbels," Chandrashekhar said.

 

"Nobody can be Goebbels and nobody can be Taliban in this country.

The country has a cultural history of thousands of years and such

Goebbels and such Talibans would come and go, but the country will go

on its own path," he said.