New Delhi, October 19
Launching a fresh personal offensive against the Prime Minister, the main opposition party countered the charges levelled by him against the NDA-led government yesterday one by one and rubbished them as “a
creaky response of a crumbling government.”
The tirade by the Prime Minister against the BJP is not only condemnable but outrageous. It is a desperate rattling of a Prime Minister who is much weakened and who does not enjoy authority in the Cabinet, backing of his party and supporting parties, main opposition party spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad observed.
Prasad said the Prime Minister has lost his mental balance when he styles Agra summit as a fiasco as the talks were unsuccessful because of the Vajpayee government's determined stand that there will not be any compromise on cross-border terrorism.
Vajpayee government's foreign policy proved to be successful in January 2004 when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf pledged not to allow terrorist activities from his soil. We lost this success when Prime Minister Singh dubbed Pakistan as a victim of terrorism, Prasad added.
The BJP also took objection to Prime Minister's assertion that senior BJP leader L.K. Advani as Home Minister had given a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government over the 2002 Holocaust, a reference to the post-Godhra riots.
“Singh is a late entrant in politics by accident. He has described the unfortunate riots in Gujarat as a holocaust. Then we would like to know his views on the selective, gruesome and targeted killings of Sikhs in 1984, Prasad asked.”
He claimed that Singh, who was a civil servant at the time of the anti-Sikh riots, had not even registered his protest then and now the CBI, which functions under him, has also given a questionable report in favour of Jagdish Tytler who played a key role in the killings.
He also trained his guns at Singh on the Indo-US nuclear deal issue, saying he did not even think for a minute before making a u-turn on the agreement.
