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PM remark on Gujarat minister biggest joke:
Narendra Modi
Thursday February 17, 2011 06:19:12 PM,
IANS
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Ahmedabad: A day after
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) of adopting a "hostile attitude" towards his government
because of action against a Gujarat minister, Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi hit back terming his remark as the "biggest
joke of 2011".
"The PM's speech yesterday, I think, is the biggest joke of 2011,"
Modi said here.
"You (PM) are not being able to do anything and you have admitted
of your difficulties in public. For this, it is not needed to
blame any minister from Gujarat or the government of Gujarat. They
try to drag Gujarat's name all the time. I think his remark was
very humorous," he added.
In a media interaction Wednesday, the prime minister accused the
opposition party of adopting a "hostile attitude" towards the
government and blamed it for delaying the introduction of a single
goods and service tax (GST) in the country.
Singh said the GST will make India's tax system an "envy of the
world".
But, he told the select editors of electronic media invited for
tghe interaction, the opposition-led states are not cooperating.
"The reasons that have been given, frankly, I cannot mention it in
public. They say because you have taken some decision against a
particular person, who was a minister in Gujarat, we must reverse
it."
The prime minister was apparently referring to the arrest of
Gujarat's former minister of state for home Amit Shah, who was
held last year by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in
connection with the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged
shootout.
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