PM Modi hails C. Sadanandan MP for his Rajya Sabha speech

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised C. Sadanandan MP for his maiden speech in the Rajya Sabha which made news a few days ago when he displayed his prosthetic limbs on the desk in front of him.

“Your courage is widely known in Kerala and to a lot of us, but when you displayed the artificial limbs that support you, it surprised people in Parliament and across the length and breadth of India. People were unable to digest how in a vibrant democracy as ours, a hardworking teacher could be attacked like this by followers of a retrograde ideology,” Mr. Modi said in his February 6 letter which Mr. Sadanandan shared on X.

“Truly blessed” was how the BJP veteran, a retired school teacher from Kannur and survivor of a brutal political attack allegedly perpetrated by the CPI(M) 31 years ago, reacted to the Prime Minister’s letter.

Mr. Modi said in his letter that the “the retrograde ideology has shrunk greatly, while you are sitting proudly in Parliament!” and that the people of Kerala are “tired of the UDF and LDF.”

Although Mr. Sadanandan described himself as a freshman, he brings a lifetime of service and commitment to the ideology of ‘nation first’, Mr. Modi said.

The BJP leader had been nominated to the Rajya Sabha in July last year.