Hours after CM Oommen Chandy asked PM Narendra Modi to withdraw his comments against Kerala during a poll campaign here, Twitter saw the Prime Minister being trolled with #PoMoneModi (or go away Modi) campaign. The PM had compared Kerala to Somalia in terms of infant mortality rate among its Scheduled Tribes population during a rally on Sunday .
Hashtag PoMoneModi, based on a film dialogue by Mohanlal, loosely translates into `go away Modi'; started trending on Wednesday. A tweet said, “The BJP vote share in Kerala is 6% and Kerala literacy is 94%. Totally matching equation #PoMoneModi.“
Chandy , in his letter to Modi, said, “People of Kerala were shocked to hear from you certain baseless comments in your recent election rally speech in Kerala. You made statements that had nothing to do with reality and likened Kerala to Somalia. This is unbecoming of a PM and has created agony and protest.“
CPM politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan too threw his weight behind Chandy and said Modi was venting his frustration over the people of Kerala for not electing the BJP.
“He should have first compared Gujarat, which he ruled for several years, with Somalia, before venturing out to compare Kerala and Somalia,“ Vijayan wrote on his Facebook wall. He also said he suspected an attempt by Modi to turn Kerala into Somalia by continuously rejecting Central aid to the state. Vijayan said the people of Kerala didn't want to turn Kerala into Gujarat either and that was why BJP was not winning elections here.
Incidentally , in 2012, when Modi was Gujarat chief minister, the then Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju had said that Gujarat's malnutrition rate was higher than that of poor countries like Somalia.
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