Meanwhile, addressing a press meet, AICC spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said that Mr Modi “selectively and mischievously” quoted Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi during his speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and hoped that he learns from those speeches that entail an inclusive, compassionate tolerant and people-centric India.
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He said that Prime Minister’s “petty minded jibes” during motion of thanks address were against the culture of “Indian democracy”. I had several rounds of consultations with the PM on the Naga peace process.
The Congress vice-president said that instead of giving a straight reply to the four queries he posed to the prime minister in Parliament, the latter launched a personal attack on him. “I hope that after one reads Gandhi and Nehru more, he gains the ideological and political maturity to govern a complex, diverse and attractive country that is the Republic of India”.
“He said that he will not bring an end to it but would continue with it so that the whole nation knows what big mistake the Congress Party had committed by implementing this scheme”.
Every minister, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, the Home Minister and he himself, is responsible for each important decision taken by their departments, Jaitley said.
The Prime Minister addressed numerous barbs against his government in a speech that lasted over an hour. In the NDA it is so. The UPA was quite different. By disrupting proceedings, such leaders were being denied a chance to shine in Parliament, he said.
Attacking the PM on his MNREGA comment, Gandhi said that Modiji says that the MNREGA is useless, let him go to any village and ask the saarpanch (village head) about it and they will tell him how useful MNREGA is. “So what Rahul Gandhi has said is incorrect”.
Continuing in the same vein, Modi mocked Gandhi for showing disrespect to his party seniors by recalling how the Congress leader had publicly torn a copy of an ordinance which had been approved by the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. He also remained the Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990.
“I would like to correct the record”.
During his half-hour long fiery speech, the Congress leader lashed out at the Prime Minister and his Cabinet ministers on issues ranging from the domestic economy, foreign relations, and MGNREGA to Rohith Vemula and JNU. When PM spoke to PM Sharif, he had called me after that to ask my opinion on him going to Lahore. “I was present there”.
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“I am sure this will impact the conduct of the parties concerned”, he said.
