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An aggressive Congress on Tuesday responded sharply to the Bharatiya Janata Party's description of Manmohan Singh as a “weak” Prime Minister, warning the Opposition against making “frivolous insinuations.”
Party spokesman Manish Tewari hit back at BJP leader L.K. Advani reminding him of what happened when he made a similar “personal” attack on the Prime Minister in the run-up to the 2009 general elections.
“The last time he made such remarks, the people of this country gave a resounding and clear reply, and the United Progressive Alliance got a new, energised and increased mandate.”
Mr. Tewari was responding to Mr. Advani's comments made at a Kolkata public function earlier in the day.
Later, replying to questions on the BJP's new demand for widening the scope of the proposed Joint Parliamentary Committee on the 2G spectrum scam to include the Commonwealth Games fiasco and the Adarsh Society scam, Congress sources accused the principal Opposition of constantly “changing the goalposts.”
The sources said if the Opposition's insistence on a JPC was that neither the Public Accounts Committee examining the 2G spectrum scam nor the CBI probe could go into the policy aspects of the issue, then there could be no justification for including the CWG or Adarsh Society scam in the JPC. For, there was no policy issue involved in the CWG matter — being examined by the Shunglu Committee — or in the Adarsh society case which, in any case, was a State government issue.
Party spokesman Manish Tewari hit back at BJP leader L.K. Advani reminding him of what happened when he made a similar “personal” attack on the Prime Minister in the run-up to the 2009 general elections.
“The last time he made such remarks, the people of this country gave a resounding and clear reply, and the United Progressive Alliance got a new, energised and increased mandate.”
Mr. Tewari was responding to Mr. Advani's comments made at a Kolkata public function earlier in the day.
Later, replying to questions on the BJP's new demand for widening the scope of the proposed Joint Parliamentary Committee on the 2G spectrum scam to include the Commonwealth Games fiasco and the Adarsh Society scam, Congress sources accused the principal Opposition of constantly “changing the goalposts.”
The sources said if the Opposition's insistence on a JPC was that neither the Public Accounts Committee examining the 2G spectrum scam nor the CBI probe could go into the policy aspects of the issue, then there could be no justification for including the CWG or Adarsh Society scam in the JPC. For, there was no policy issue involved in the CWG matter — being examined by the Shunglu Committee — or in the Adarsh society case which, in any case, was a State government issue.