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Omar Abdullah praises Narendra Modi's excellent speech to British MPs

Speed News Desk | Updated on: 13 February 2017, 8:42 IST

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday took on critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech to British parliamentarians asking "why cannot we take pride" in the excellent speech made by him.

"The Indian PM made an excellent speech to British MPs in their Parliament. Why can't we just take pride in that?" Mr. Omar said in response to a tweet, which claims to be a handle for Congress volunteers.

"PM didn't address joint session of Parliament, but a speech to MPs in the royal gallery. Yeh jhoot bhi pakda gaya (this lie has also been caught)," the volunteer handle, @withCongress, had tweeted.

"I think we can safely assume that the British press was not 'advised' about what to ask & what not to. Some very hard hitting questions," he said.

However, he made it clear that second part of the question asked by The Guardian was "disrespectful" towards the Prime Minister.

"The second part of the @guardian question to PM Modi was rather disrespectful to say the least," Mr. Omar said.

The Guardian reporter had asked Mr. Modi about protests on the streets of London saying he did not deserve the respect that would normally be accorded to the leader of the world's largest democracy given his record as Gujarat chief minister.

-PTI

First published: 13 November 2015, 7:22 IST