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Quit, Sena chief tells PM
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday rooted for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation and dissolution of the Lok Sabha, even as trouble-shooters in the ruling Congress and UPA dispensation busied themselves in containing the Finance Ministry’s 2G note-triggered crisis.
“Manmohan, if you are really honest, then you should put in your papers and recommend the dissolution of Lok Sabha. If you do so, you will have acquitted yourself well,” Thackeray told the Prime Minister in an editorial published in Sena mouthpiece Saamna.
Thackeray said, “Singh should not try to bail out (Home Minister) P Chidambaram from the 2G scam. If he does so, he may land himself in trouble. Many people within the UPA Government think that Chidambaram deserves to be removed from the Cabinet and sent to the Tihar Jail. That being the case, why is Singh vacillating on matters relating to Chidambaram?”
Castigating Singh for his statement that the UPA Government would complete its five-year term, Thackeray said, “Manmohan Singh may be an economist of repute, but under his regime, there has been a marked rise in prices (of essential commodities) and corruption… if somebody has been thoroughly exposed in the 2G spectrum scam, it is Manmohan Singh.”
The Sena chief said that however the Prime Minister try to suppress the involvement of A Raja and Chidambaram, the latter could not bring the curtains down on a scam that had blown up in the UPA Government’s face. “The stand taken by Chidambaram in the allotment of spectrum has raised suspicions. There would not have been such a huge scam, but for Chidambaram’s negligence,” he added.
Thackeray also asked the Prime Minister not to blame the Opposition. “The Opposition is doing its duty of laying bare the misdeeds of the UPA Government before the people,” he pointed out
Alluding to Mukherjee’s controversial note saying Chidambaram could have prevented the spectrum loss, Thackeray alleged that the correspondence between the Finance and Telecom Ministries and the Prime Minister’s Office revealed that the entire Union Cabinet was steeped in corruption.
On the Prime Minister’s charge that the Opposition was forcing mid-term elections on the country, Thackeray took a potshot at Singh, saying the latter need not bother about early elections. “Singh need not be apprehending the prospect of a mid-term election. Because he himself will not contest a poll and even if he does, he will not win,” he quipped.
“It is in the country’s interest that this corrupt Government falls as early as possible,” added the Sena chief.
“Manmohan, if you are really honest, then you should put in your papers and recommend the dissolution of Lok Sabha. If you do so, you will have acquitted yourself well,” Thackeray told the Prime Minister in an editorial published in Sena mouthpiece Saamna.
Thackeray said, “Singh should not try to bail out (Home Minister) P Chidambaram from the 2G scam. If he does so, he may land himself in trouble. Many people within the UPA Government think that Chidambaram deserves to be removed from the Cabinet and sent to the Tihar Jail. That being the case, why is Singh vacillating on matters relating to Chidambaram?”
Castigating Singh for his statement that the UPA Government would complete its five-year term, Thackeray said, “Manmohan Singh may be an economist of repute, but under his regime, there has been a marked rise in prices (of essential commodities) and corruption… if somebody has been thoroughly exposed in the 2G spectrum scam, it is Manmohan Singh.”
The Sena chief said that however the Prime Minister try to suppress the involvement of A Raja and Chidambaram, the latter could not bring the curtains down on a scam that had blown up in the UPA Government’s face. “The stand taken by Chidambaram in the allotment of spectrum has raised suspicions. There would not have been such a huge scam, but for Chidambaram’s negligence,” he added.
Thackeray also asked the Prime Minister not to blame the Opposition. “The Opposition is doing its duty of laying bare the misdeeds of the UPA Government before the people,” he pointed out
Alluding to Mukherjee’s controversial note saying Chidambaram could have prevented the spectrum loss, Thackeray alleged that the correspondence between the Finance and Telecom Ministries and the Prime Minister’s Office revealed that the entire Union Cabinet was steeped in corruption.
On the Prime Minister’s charge that the Opposition was forcing mid-term elections on the country, Thackeray took a potshot at Singh, saying the latter need not bother about early elections. “Singh need not be apprehending the prospect of a mid-term election. Because he himself will not contest a poll and even if he does, he will not win,” he quipped.
“It is in the country’s interest that this corrupt Government falls as early as possible,” added the Sena chief.
