Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday drew heavy criticism from the opposition Congress party and other people on social media after he took to Twitter and sent out a bunch of tweets to promote yoga, even as a terror attack was ongoing in Punjab's Pathankot area.
Addressing the Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, DNA quotes him as saying "I hope that you will integrate yoga and traditional Indian medicine more closely into our health care system. My vision for health care is an integrated system that understands and builds on the best and most effective of different traditions.”
Happening now: PM @narendramodi is addressing a Yoga conference in Karnataka. https://t.co/TAsStb5hm0
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) January 3, 2016 Swami Vivekananda's vision was a deep reading of Indian & Western thought & drew its spirit from our ancient philosophy & knowledge: PM
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) January 3, 2016 PM @narendramodi is speaking about Yoga. Watch his speech. https://t.co/e9k79sosjP
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) January 3, 2016However, this address occurred even as forces were fighting terrorists at the Pathankot Airforce Base in Punjab, and had already lost three army men.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah also criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for talking about Yoga at a time when an encounter with terrorists was raging on at Pathankot Air Base.
Business as usual is all well & good but a speech about yoga while an encounter rages at an Air Base in #Pathankot seems totally out of sync
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) January 3, 2016 Sometimes when you live your life by spin, you get a little dazed and confused. PMO tweets on yoga during #PathankotAttack...
— ranjona banerji (@ranjona) January 3, 2016 Oops in the new 56" foreign policy of Modi sarkar they aren't Pakistan terrorists but 'enemies of humanity'.
— Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) January 3, 2016 Remember the day when the country was attacked by terrorists and the PM delivered a speech on Yoga & HM was busy in election campaign?
— Scotchy (@scotchism) January 3, 2016 Honey, I Shrunk My Chest ! #56"
— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) January 3, 2016 Some corrections which PMO and the official PM Twitter Account should make in the present context. Would they ? pic.twitter.com/GZ0sm1HCAd
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) January 3, 2016 I think the timing of this tweet is very wrong/inappropriate considering the pathankot attack https://t.co/37xVeEGrDu
— Onward Kerala (@onwardkerala) January 3, 2016 It's in such a crisis the need for a Media Adviser to PM bcms glaring. MEA spokesman can't fill the breach & Def Ministry needs guidance. KP
— Krishan Partap Singh (@RaisinaSeries) January 3, 2016 Pic 1: Modi when Pakistan attacked India during UPA regime. Pic 2: Modi now when Pakistan attacked Pathankot. . pic.twitter.com/lX3m2EIG7N
— PhD in Bakchodi !! (@Atheist_Krishna) January 3, 2016