06-22-2007, 04:55 AM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has asked UPA presidential nominee Prathiba Patil to make a three-point commitment to the nation before filing her nomination papers.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Modi wants Patil to promise she would not allow any person of foreign origin to swear as Prime Minister; commit to the hanging of Md Afzal, who is mastermind behind attack on Parliament; and not to accept vote of Lalu Prasad, who protested against the Women Reservation Bill in Parliament.</span>
In a statement, he made it clear that if Patil was in true sense committed to the people of the country and did not want to function as a rubber stamp, she must publicly admit her commitment by offering these three promises.
"It is really unfortunate that, tough stand adopted by the Congress has generated the controversy. Without taking any party into the confidence, Soniaji wants to impose her personal candidate, which has further complicated the issue," he added.
Coming out strongly in favour of Kalam for renomination and pointing out that Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has also lent his support to Kalam, the Gujarat Chief Minister wondered why Patil and the Congress party cannot display the same courage and spirit.
<b>"Congress has been playing the vote bank politics of secularism for several decades... it should accept Kalam who is a true patriot and a person representing the minority community as the consensus candidate,"</b> Modi said
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has asked UPA presidential nominee Prathiba Patil to make a three-point commitment to the nation before filing her nomination papers.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Modi wants Patil to promise she would not allow any person of foreign origin to swear as Prime Minister; commit to the hanging of Md Afzal, who is mastermind behind attack on Parliament; and not to accept vote of Lalu Prasad, who protested against the Women Reservation Bill in Parliament.</span>
In a statement, he made it clear that if Patil was in true sense committed to the people of the country and did not want to function as a rubber stamp, she must publicly admit her commitment by offering these three promises.
"It is really unfortunate that, tough stand adopted by the Congress has generated the controversy. Without taking any party into the confidence, Soniaji wants to impose her personal candidate, which has further complicated the issue," he added.
Coming out strongly in favour of Kalam for renomination and pointing out that Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has also lent his support to Kalam, the Gujarat Chief Minister wondered why Patil and the Congress party cannot display the same courage and spirit.
<b>"Congress has been playing the vote bank politics of secularism for several decades... it should accept Kalam who is a true patriot and a person representing the minority community as the consensus candidate,"</b> Modi said
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