Bangalore,
Sept 18: Jnanpeet Award-winning Kannada writer U R Ananthamurthy has
said that he will leave India if Narendra Modi becomes its prime
minister.
Calling
the Gujarat chief minister communal, Ananthamurthy said "Modi can
neither reflect the ancient India nor can he build a model India. I will
have no belongingness to India represented by Modi. I, in fact will not
like to live in India during that period." He drew the reference of
Nehru's Discovery of India and said that anyone with a social
consciousness and responsibility will not want him as PM as he does not
have the capability to build India of Nehru and Gandhi.
He
said this while releasing the books Anusandana and Devara Guttu, which
were written by Prof Baragur Ramachandrappa, at B P Wadia Hall, in
Bangalore on Sunday (Sept 15).
He
called upon the Congress and the voters of the country to join hands to
keep communal forces at bay as revolutionary thinking is not acceptable
by political fractions. Speaking of the writings by Baragur
Ramachandrappa, he said that they were thought-provoking in nature,
having the strength to stem the evils of society.
"Bagragur's
writings against communal forces are very superior. However, Bandaya
Sahithya has not received the kind of response that deserves to get," he
said.
