Renowned economist and Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen, in an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologise to Muslim citizens in India for calling them ‘Infiltrators’.
“He can’t get away with insulting 200 million Muslims and, therefore, insulting us.” The Prime Minister’s comments about Muslims suggest “the limitations of Modi’s mind,” Sen said.
Sen said it was “a terrible remark to make”.
“There is something deeply worrying about his thinking of India,” Sen added.
In a hate speech done by Modi at a rally as a part of the Loksabha election campaign at Banswara in Rajasthan, he called Muslims ‘Infiltrators’. Distorting a remark once made by former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Modi claimed that Singh had “said that Muslims have the first right to the wealth of the nation. This means they will distribute this wealth to those who have more children, to infiltrators.”
This speech was the beginning of the later-seen hate campaigns led by the BJP in the Loksabha elections.
Professor Sen has also said that the election result is a rejection of the BJP’s Hindu Rashtra.
