Raj Thackeray mocks PM Narendra Modi over cloud cover remark

TIL Desk/National/Thane/ Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘cloud cover’ theory on the Balakot air strike, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray said the whole world was laughing at India. Addressing a party workers camp here on Monday, Thackeray sarcastically added that the United Nations has recently passed a resolution that all warring nations should go to battle during monsoon only.

“The cloud cover in monsoon will make it difficult to detect the enemy. The latest technology has been credited to Modi,” Thackeray said to laughter from party activists. He said that the “entire country has become a laughing stock in the international community”.

The recent remarks by Modi have been debated and discussed on social media platforms with scores of memes, cartoons, and jokes created in the past couple of days. Attacking Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah, Thackeray said that though he (Shah) had shown Modi’s academic credentials, “what the country needs is a mature, intelligent PM, not necessarily an educated one.