Chandrayaan-3’s success would be used by the BJP and PM Modi for political purposes, according to TMC MP Mohua Moitra

Mahua Moitra, the leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), has said that the BJP would attempt to capitalize politically on the nation’s successful Chandrayaan-3 moon mission.

She said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will capitalize on Chandrayaan-3’s successful soft landing on the Moon’s south pole for their political objectives.

BJP would use ISRO as a campaign weapon for the forthcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, according to TMC MP Moitra.

Mahua Moitra made his comment only days after India achieved history when the Lander Module of its third unmanned Moon mission performed a successful soft landing, making it just the fourth nation to do so.

India is the first nation to go to Earth’s only natural satellite’s unexplored south pole.

Every mission would be utilized to incite a patriotic frenzy before elections, she said on the microblogging platform X (previously Twitter). To bundle decades of Indian scientific research as Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai magic, the Bhakt & troll army works around-the-clock.

“India, get up. I’m not anti-national, though, she continued.

Moita made his remark after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had just flown directly from Athens, the capital of Greece, to Bengaluru to meet with ISRO scientists about the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, declared that the location where the lander “Vikram” touched down on the lunar surface would be called “Shiva Shakti Point.”

Aroop Biswas, a West Bengal TMC minister, used media sources to support his assertion that ISRO scientists, who had brought honor to the country with the successful Moon mission, have not been receiving regular pay for the last 17 months.

The opposition BJP responded angrily to the statement, branding it a “cheap political stunt.”

Recent credit disputes between the Congress and the BJP over the nation’s space technology accomplishments during their separate terms in office practically shaped their campaign platforms for the 2024 elections.