Public Reaction to Modi's Birthday Event

Where have you come from?

Kurthal, Patna.

How did you all come here?

We didn't know that Modi ji's birthday was being celebrated here, and we

were invited. We thought it was something else, that's why.

Why were you all invited?

We were just invited.

You're holding boards in your hands. Could you show them?

Light in the darkness.

What does this say? "Work for every hand, respect in every home."

Did you all know about this?

We had no idea.

We didn't know anything.

Ujika Didi called, saying, “Come, there's some group work at a meeting.” We said we'd

go.

Okay, so you were given this board to keep like this, right?

Will they go somewhere, put it in someone's face, and leave it there?

Yes.

Hold on a minute. Okay, what were you told?

We weren't told anything, we were just called. You had to go

to a meeting, that's all, so we came.

All right, you lit a lamp.

Yes, I lit one. People were lighting them, so I did

too.

Okay, so you didn't light it willingly. Didn't you know it was Modi ji's

birthday and that lamps were being lit?

No.

Why?

Come on, give jobs to the unemployed. I say, give jobs to the unemployed, not this.

Help those who are suffering

escape that suffering. When there is a flood, their homes are so badly

destroyed. Do all that, then these lamps

can be lit on birthdays.

You seem quite angry. Do you not think Modi ji's work is good?

No.

No? Whose work do you think is good?

Right now, no one. I mean, one should be educated, whether one is a Chief Minister,

a Prime Minister, or anything else. One should be educated.

Modi ji doesn't seem educated.

If he were educated, would he call people to light lamps like this?

Tell me, does he call people to light lamps, saying, "It's my birthday, come and light

lamps"?

So all of Bihar was celebrating his birthday.

Let them celebrate. What does that have to do with us? What is Pura doing?

That doesn't concern me.

What did Jeevika Didi tell you all?

Come on, there's a small meeting. One and a half hours.

We'll stay for an hour, then just come back. If I'd known that coming here

meant lighting a lamp, lighting a diya, we would never have come.

Was anything even said about coming here?

She did say it, didn't she?

What?

It’s just a meeting. They didn’t say what it was about.

They were called here under the pretext of a meeting.

Yes.

All the women you see here.

Yes, most of them. Most of those people were told it was just a

meeting, so come along. No one knew they had been called to do all this.

If they had, no one would have come.