In the budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the Congress on Tuesday (February 4, 2025), referring to the Rajiv Gandhi government in the House. He said that during the tenure of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Congress used to talk about the 21st century, but it could not meet the needs of the 20th century. Although he did not name Rajiv Gandhi, but his gesture was towards him.
Prime Minister Modi said, ‘A Prime Minister used to speak the 21st century again and again, this pillow became Kalam. In the Times of India, RK Laxman made a great cartoon. It has an airplane, a pilot. He liked the pilot, there were some pursers on the airplane and the airplane was on a cart and wrote the 21st century on the ship.
PM Modi said that it seemed a joke at that time, but later he proved to be true. It was a sarcasm of how many cuts the then PMs were cut off from the ground and were engaged in air, it was a living cartoon to live. Prime Minister Modi said that he had talked about the 21st century then, but he could not fulfill the needs of the 20th century.