PM's remarks 'unbecoming': BJP
New Delhi, Oct 19: Launching a counter attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his statements made on Oct 18 against the BJP, the party today said it was an ''unbecoming act by a powerless PM whose government was on a rapid downhill''.
BJP
spokesman
Ravishankar
Prasad
said
Dr
Singh
began
has
career
as
a
teacher,
turned
into
a
civil
servant
and
was
a
late
entrant
to
politics.
''His
entry
itself
was
more
of
an
accident
than
by
a
design
as
was
his
elevation
to
the
office
of
Prime
ministership
and
convenience
was
his
hallmark
of
his
poltics
and
not
'conviction
and
commitment'.
If
the
helpless
PM
can't
exercise
his
authority
in
his
Cabinet
and
the
ruling
coalition,
he
can't
take
it
out
on
the
BJP,''
he
remarked.
Godhra riots as a 'holocaust'
Noting that the Prime Minister had described communal violence in Gujarat as a 'holocaust' forgetting that the state had experienced 44 communal riots under Congress before the Godhra triggered episode, he said the BJP would like to know how Dr Singh would describe the government sponsored anti-Sikh riots in 1984. ''Was it a 'holocaust, mass murder or a genocide?'' Mr Prasad asked. Dr Singh, himself a Sikh, held an important office but chose to maintain conspicuous silence, he added. What is shocking is that the CBI presided over by the PM had issued a clean chit to Mr Jagadish Tytler, a prime accused in the Sikh carnage, he said.
Sense of balance
He said the PM had lost his 'sense of balance' when he described Agra Summit breakdown as a 'fiasco' when the nation was hailing the uncompromising attitude of the NDA government against cross border terrorism. Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf, who was all along maintaining that his government was not sponsoring terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, had to accept in January 2004 that his government shall not permit any part of Pakistan for terrorist activities. Dr Singh, on his part, had frittered away this diplomatic success by describing Pakistan as a 'victim of terror', Mr Prasad contended. ''Who has committed the fiasco? the PM or the BJP'', he asked.
Sins of Congress
He said in the Kargil misadventure, India had retrieved every inch of land occupied by Pakistan soldiers. ''Was this the case during the Congress rule when the country lost its territories to Pakistan in its war in 1948 and to China in 1962 and these lands were still in the possesion of the aggressors. From JK to North-East to Sri Lanka, the country had witnessed patent sadistic communalism pandering to the vote bank politics and Dr Singh was ready to overlook the 'sins of Congress' through his 'selective amnesia','' Mr Prasad alleged.
UNI