Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said took a dig at the Opposition INDIA bloc saying that it cannot face the NDA or BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, and it will be a “moye moye” moment for them.
The term “moye moye” loosely translates to “they will lose (elections).
The term comes from the chorus of Serbian singer Teya Dora’s 2023 song ‘Džanum’ (a repetition of the words “moje more”). In Serbian, the term ‘moje more’ means ‘my nightmares’. Dora’s nearly 3-minute long song is a portrayal of a person at their lowest emotionally, with lyrics that aim at conveying despair and misery.
Singh was in Ghaziabad campaigning for MLA and BJP candidate Atul Garg for the upcoming elections.
The defence minister also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi facilitated the return of 22,500 stranded Indian students from Ukraine after speaking with leaders of Russia, Ukraine and the US, which no other world leader could do.
The Defence Minister praised Prime Minister Modi for transforming India’s reputation on the global stage since taking office in 2014, stating that under his leadership, India has become a powerful country that commands attention and respect internationally.
“India has become a powerful country. The world did not take India seriously… But our PM Modi has done a miracle. Today when India speaks on the international stage, the whole world listens carefully. This is India’s reputation which has grown rapidly,” Singh said.
Referring to the Russia-Ukraine conflict that has been continuing for the last two years, the defence minister said, “Around 25,000 Indian students were studying in Ukraine. Their parents demanded from our prime minister that the children must be brought back… Every parent in India was worried.”
“What no other prime minister in the world could do, our PM did that. He called up Russia’s President Putin and Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy. Not just that, he even spoke to President Biden of the US, which is considered the most powerful nation.
“Brothers and sisters, you should be proud that the war stopped for four-and-a-half hours and over 22,500 Indian children came back from Ukraine. This is India,” he said.
Notably, although Singh said that “war was stopped for four and a half hours”, the then official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) denied such claims. Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on March 3, 2022, had said, “To extrapolate to say that somebody held off the bombing or that we are coordinating on that-this is absolutely inaccurate. To be facetious, does this mean we would also order a resumption of bombing?”
Ghaziabad goes to polls on April 26 in the second phase of the elections and has over 29 lakh registered voters.