LUCKNOW, Apr 14: Launching a frontal attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP national president Rajnath Singh accused her of denigrating the authority of the prime minister.
Agreeing to the suggestion that the powers of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were undermined during the UPA rule, he said Ms Gandhi was responsible for diluting the authority of the PM.
Talking to reporters here at the state party headquarters, the BJP president said running the government by remote control, the Congress president not only eroded the sanctity of PM chair but also wasted ten precious years of the country.
Refusing to comment on a recent book of former media advisor to the PM, Mr Singh said though he had not read it but everyone knew where the powers lied during the UPA regime. “It seriously affected the development process Ms Gandhi should be held responsible for that,” he added.
The BJP president,who was here to campaign as the party candidate from Lucknow parliamentary constituency, said whatever being said about the Prime Minister was unfortunate and how the Congress president run the government on her own was against the established norms of the democracy. Mr Singh said the good governance and development would remain the only poll planks of the BJP much to the discomfiture of the Congress. “What a waste of time when you look at the various economic and social indices going down and down during the UPA regime,” he pointed out. It was for every one to see and realise that despite the Prime Minister, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission and the finance minister of the country all being economists but the growth rate had dipped from 8.4 per cent during NDA regime to 4.8 and the inflation rising from less than 5 to over 10 per cent, he argued.
“It is no wonder that the people of the country has made up their mind to choose BJP as the party and NDA as the alliance to lead the country,”he said. Based on the trend being witnessed everywhere, the BJP hoped to win about 300 seats of Lok Sabha in this poll,” he claimed. (UNI)
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