‘Modi’s language unbecoming of PM’
Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming that the Congress was upset because he was “tightening the screws” on those linked to corruption, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday said the language used by Mr. Modi was “unbecoming of a Prime Minister”.
“From Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, none has used such language. He must remember a Prime Minister is always a Prime Minister, even when he addresses a political rally,” Mr. Chidambaram said. The former Union Minister said Mr. Modi often descended from his “exalted office” to become “just another political speaker”.
Even though the Congress party’s response to such barbs appeared weak, it was only because its numbers in the Lok Sabha were weak; “but in the public arena, we have been robust,” he said. However, the next parliamentary election would see the emergence of a strong anti-BJP front led by the Congress, Mr Chidambaram said.
“In Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry, they will come a cropper. Forty per cent of their term is over, but they have delivered nothing,” he said and predicted that “more bad news will come for them in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.”
Each other’s B team
Mr. Chidambaram elaborated on what the Congress says is a tacit understanding between the AIADMK and the BJP. In Delhi, the AIADMK, which has 37 Lok Sabha MPs, was the “virtual B team of the BJP”. And in Tamil Nadu, the BJP was the AIADMK’s virtual B team. “They will neither work together nor fight each other. It is a tacit understanding to live and let live.”
He was critical of the alternative front of the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam, the Marumalarchi Dravida Kazhagam, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, the two Left Parties, and the Tamil Maanila Congress. “The six-party front can only play the role of a spoiler,” he said.
He distinguished between the “tactical alliance” of the Left and Congress in West Bengal and the situation in Tamil Nadu, where the party has no idea of joining hands with the third front that includes the Left. “As far as Bengal is concerned, what the Left and the Congress have done is absolutely correct,” he said.
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