New Delhi: February 19, 2021
Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today sought to wear “Andolanjeevi“, a term pejoratively used in Parliament two days ago, as a compliment. Purportedly aimed at those irresistibly drawn to mass agitations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used it on Monday in the context of the ongoing farmers’ protest against his government’s three contentious farm laws. He Tweeting today using #iamanandolanjeevi, Mr Chidambaram said, “I am a proudandolanjeevi. The quintessential andolan jeevi was Mahatma Gandhi.”