The PM was replying to the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.
Mocking the UPA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today compared the alliance to a decades-old, rundown car that they were now trying to portray as an electric vehicle. He said the opposition was attempting to do so by renaming the alliance INDIA.
"A few days ago, in Bengaluru, you got together and conducted the last rites of the nearly two-decade-old United Progressive Alliance. I should have extended my condolences to you then itself. But the delay is not my fault. Because, on the one hand, you were holding UPA's funeral and, on the other, you were holding a celebration. And what were you celebrating? Putting new plaster on ruins," PM Modi said during his reply to the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition.
"You were celebrating putting new paint on a failed machine. You had gathered such a big crowd in an attempt to portray your decades-old khatara (rundown) car as an electric vehicle. The fun part is that even before the gathering dispersed, there was a clamour to take credit," he added.
The Prime Minister said he was amazed that this coalition would be taken to the people. "I want to tell my opposition colleagues that the person you are going to walk behind has no understanding left of this country's way of speaking and its culture. For generations, these people have not been able to understand the difference between green chilli and red chilli," PM Modi said.
The PM recited a couplet to mock people "who only have the support of their names". He said that the opposition had to take the help of NDA to keep themselves alive, but had added the 'I' of arrogance.
"That is why they have added two 'I's of arrogance. The first 'I' is for the arrogance of the 26 parties and the second is for the arrogance of one family. They stole the NDA name to save themselves and divided India by making it I dot N dot D dot I dot A," the Prime Minister said.