Yashwant fires broadside at Lalu
Indore, Mar 6 (UNI) Reacting to Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's opinion regarding parliamentarians from Bihar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha today quipped that Mr Thackeray should not think that every such MP was like Railway Minister Lalu Prasad.
''Bihar also produces good MPs,'' he told reporters here.
Mr Sinha felt that it was for the Maharashtra government to take a decision on legal action against Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.
''The Congress is in power both at the Centre and in Maharashtra.
Why is no step being taken despite repeated demands for legal action? The BJP has made it clear right from the start that regionalism is a narrow-minded sentiment that can break up the country. Such talk, irrespective of its source, is not in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution,'' he said.
Mr Sinha pointed out that people could move from one state to another under the Constitution's Right to Freedom of Movement.
Earlier, he told party workers to begin preparing for a general election as the Centre could impose one on the country anytime after August.
Reacting
to
the
2008-09
budget's
Rs
60,000
crore
debt
waiver
for
farmers,
the
former
union
finance
minister
said,
''why
did
the
United
Progressive
Alliance
regime
not
take
this
step
earlier?
Why
wait
for
a
poll
year?
The
UPA
government
was
born
handicapped
and
was
paralysed
after
the
123
Indo-US
Nuclear
Agreement
against
which
our
protest
will
continue
as
the
deal
envisages
US
control
over
our
nuclear
arsenal.'' UNI
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