Scoffing at Congress' assertion that Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi shared a
"unique" relationship, BJP today said though Singh was technically at
the helm, the real power rests in the hands of Gandhi. "Andhra Pradesh
may not have power but Dr Manmohan Singh needs the charging of power by
Sonia Gandhi to establish his authority as Prime Minister. "Should the
Prime Minister of a big country like India need to have the charging
from a battery to show his own authority. Manmohan Singh is in chair but
not in power," said BJP's Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar
Prasad. Rubbishing "two power centres" remarks of its general secretary
Digvijay Singh, Congress had yesterday said the relationship that has
existed between Sonia Gandhi as Party President and Manmohan Singh as
Prime Minister is "unique and ideal". Taking on Singh for his statement
that the country's economy was facing a downturn, Prasad said the Prime
Minister was merely doing a lip-service and not taking any concrete
step to bring the economy back on the track. "Let me ask Dr Manmohan
Singh...You are now in the ninth year of your Prime Ministership. After
April, the 10th year of your PM-ship will start. Dr Manmohan Singh, you
are an economist. You are only diagnosing the problem. What about the
solution?" "Let me ask a question today in Hyderabad. Dr Manmohan
Singh, will you walk the talk? What you spoke today and this kind of
statements you have been giving for the last four years. That is the
problem. There is price rise, there is slow growth, there is corruption,
I will look into it. Looking into it has taken four years. The people
of the country will start looking at them when the time for election
comes," Prasad said. Prasad was in Hyderabad to persuade BJP MLAs, who
are on fast for the last five days over prevailing power crisis in
Andhra Pradesh, to call off their protest.
Scoffing at Congress' assertion that Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi shared a
"unique" relationship, BJP today said though Singh was technically at
the helm, the real power rests in the hands of Gandhi. "Andhra Pradesh
may not have power but Dr Manmohan Singh needs the charging of power by
Sonia Gandhi to establish his authority as Prime Minister. "Should the
Prime Minister of a big country like India need to have the charging
from a battery to show his own authority. Manmohan Singh is in chair but
not in power," said BJP's Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar
Prasad. Rubbishing "two power centres" remarks of its general secretary
Digvijay Singh, Congress had yesterday said the relationship that has
existed between Sonia Gandhi as Party President and Manmohan Singh as
Prime Minister is "unique and ideal". Taking on Singh for his statement
that the country's economy was facing a downturn, Prasad said the Prime
Minister was merely doing a lip-service and not taking any concrete
step to bring the economy back on the track. "Let me ask Dr Manmohan
Singh...You are now in the ninth year of your Prime Ministership. After
April, the 10th year of your PM-ship will start. Dr Manmohan Singh, you
are an economist. You are only diagnosing the problem. What about the
solution?" "Let me ask a question today in Hyderabad. Dr Manmohan
Singh, will you walk the talk? What you spoke today and this kind of
statements you have been giving for the last four years. That is the
problem. There is price rise, there is slow growth, there is corruption,
I will look into it. Looking into it has taken four years. The people
of the country will start looking at them when the time for election
comes," Prasad said. Prasad was in Hyderabad to persuade BJP MLAs, who
are on fast for the last five days over prevailing power crisis in
Andhra Pradesh, to call off their protest.
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