Rahul: Modi 'psychologically broken'

New Delhi, NT Bureau: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Thursday that the Lok Sabha elections had dealt a “fatal blow” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leaving him “psychologically broken” and preoccupied with saving his government rather than focusing on the crisis arising out of irregularities in key entrance exams.

Gandhi said the situation triggered by lapses in the handling of the NEET and NET examinations could not be reversed unless the country’s educational institutions were freed from the “mediocre affiliates of the BJP and its parent organisation”.

Now nobody in the country is afraid of him (Modi). Earlier the chest was 56 inches, but now I cannot give the number, but it has become 30-32... His way of working is to scare people, to intimidate them, now that fear is gone. I don't know if you saw it or not but someone hit his car with a 'chappal' in Varanasi. —Rahul Gandhi

“The prime minister is silent because he is crippled. Right now, the PM’s main agenda is the (Lok Sabha) Speaker’s post, and saving his government, not NEET. The main thing is we now have a government and PM who will find it very difficult to function. The PM, if I may say so, is psychologically broken, he has psychologically collapsed,” Gandhi said.

On June 14, the Gujarat Police arrested five persons for alleged malpractice at an examination centre in Panchmahal district’s Godhra. Meanwhile, Bihar Police also said that an investigation into the irregularities in the examination was “suggestive of a paper leak”.

On Thursday, Gandhi said that paper leaks will not stop until the “capture” of educational institutions by the RSS and BJP is reversed.

“If you don’t give jobs based on merit and give jobs based on ideology… this [paper leaks] will keep happening,” said the Rae Bareli MP