Eminent author Shashi Deshpande today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident were "far too weak."


The eminent author, who had resigned from the general council of the Sahitya Akademi expressing "disappointment" over PM's silence on Kannada author Kalburgi's murder, said that Modi has used a very weak word "unfortunate" to term the lynching incident.


The Prime Minister told a Bengali daily that the murder of a Muslim man in Dadri over rumours of eating beef and the opposition to Pakistani singer Ghulam concert is "undesirable and unfortunate."


"Unfortunate is a very weak term and the leader of the country should be morally responsible for whatever is happening in your country. People have elected you and a few words from the leader of the country makes a lot of difference," Deshpande said.


The Prime Minister had said, "Such debate has taken place in the past. BJP always opposed pseudo-secularism. Now again this debate is taking place in the face of unfortunate social malaise." The 77-year-old writer said, "I don't agree with him when he says BJP has always opposed pseudo secularism."