Thiruvananthapuram: The news that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was going to address the nation had set off panic amongst those who recalled the last time he had done the same, said Sashi Tharoor on his Twitter handle yesterday.

Modi announced that India had demonstrated anti-satellite missile capability by shooting down a live satellite and he describing the feat as a rare achievement and that it had placed the country in an exclusive club of space super powers.

“Many honest people ran to ATMs to withdraw money & many dishonest people ran to banks to deposit cash. Pity those who, at month’s end, had 0 to deposit or withdraw!”, Tharoor said. He is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Thiruvananthapuram.

Meanwhile, Kerala PCC President Mullapally Ramachandran said Prime Minister Modi’s address to the nation was against the model code of conduct. He further stated that Modi should not forget that foundation for the advancement in space research was laid by former Prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

He alleged that the PM misused the achievement of the scientific community for his own political gains.