PM ought to resign after disinvestment fiasco: BJP
Buoyed by the discomfiture of the Prime Minister in the wake of NLC disinvestment fiasco, BJP today suggested that time has come for Manmohan Singh to quit as he has "ceased to be a centre of power" and his regime was marked by an "unprecedented p...
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the discomfiture of the Prime Minister in the wake of NLC disinvestment fiasco, BJP today suggested that time has come for Manmohan Singh to quit as he has "ceased to be a centre of power" and his regime was marked by an "unprecedented policy paralysis"
"The last few days has seen a national drift. There is a complete policy paralysis that has struck the Government. The drift is so large that the Prime Minister's ability to lead the county has come into a serious question", party spokesman Arun Jaitley told reporters in a hard hitting attack on Singh.
Ridiculing the way the Congress-led coalition was functioning, he said the Prime Minister was "willing to kneel" to please any and every pressure group. He claimed that Singh has "ceased to be a centre of power" and was "caving in" to the agendas of individual Ministers.
Jaotley alleged that the Prime Minister had "caved in" to "every impropriety and unconstituionality" of allies including JMM in Jharkhand, RJD in Bihar, DMK on economic agenda and PMK on AIIMS, which have only brought "bad name" to the government.
He sought to know whether the Prime Minister was "caving in" because Congress was refusing to stand by him and whether it was time he should ask himself the question "why I am there?"
Replying to questions, he disagreed with suggestions that putting on hold the disinvestment process by the Prime Minister was due to public pressure and insisted it was due to "instinct for survival and a bargain to remain in office". The Manmohan Singh regime has witnessed "unprecedented policy paralysis".
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