Modi is a megalomaniac, Digvijaya Singh says

BHOPAL: Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “megalomaniac” for wearing a pin-striped suit with his name forming the stripes during his talks with US President Barack Obama in New Delhi on Sunday. He also criticized Modi for addressing the US president by his first name during their joint press conference.
“You should not address the head of a state by his first name,” Singh told reporters in Bhopal. “And one head of state cannot address another by his first name. While Modi called him ‘Barack’, the US president continued to address him as ‘Mr Prime Minister’.”
About Obama’s speech at Delhi’s Siri Fort auditorium on Tuesday, the Congress general secretary said the US president quoted the Constitution’s Article 25, which gives every citizen the right to profess, practise and propagate his religion, to teach Modi, the VHP and the RSS a lesson in secularism.

Referring to Obama’s remarks — that “India will succeed so long as it is not splintered on religious lines. Every person has the right to practise their religion how they choose” — Singh said: “Modi, who calls him ‘Barack’, should take some lessons from this speech and pass the message to the VHP, which has undertaken a conversion mission across the nation. If he has the courage, then the US president’s observation should be narrated to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat too.” Singh said Obama’s appeal for a world free of nuclear weapons was first advocated by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s. “The US president sees merit in what former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi said in the Eighties about a nuclear weapon-free world,” he said. “We are happy that the US president has made a statement just like Rajiv Gandhi had advocated.”
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Singh gave credit to the previous UPA government at the Centre for the India-US nuclear deal and the civil nuclear cooperation agreement of 2008. He said the NDA was taking credit for a deal it first supported and then opposed in Parliament during the Congress-led UPA regime. “The government has so far not issued a statement on the nuclear deal breakthrough,” Singh said. “If, however, it happens, it will be good.”