07-07-2007, 03:13 AM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi]
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on the arrest of Indians in the UK terror plot was motivated by vote bank considerations and demanded that the PM's talk with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown be made public.
Criticising the PM's remarks that he could not sleep at night after watching the images of the family members of those implicated in the terror plots, Modi said such sympathetic words from the country's Prime Minister had hurt the feeling of crores of citizens.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>In a statement, Modi had asked if the PM had lost his sleep over the plight of the family members of the jawans who are killed while fighting terrorists in Kashmir.
"Why did the PM not lose his sleep when several people were killed in the Mumbai bomb blasts," Modi asked. Asserting that the country had a right to know what transpired between Manmohan Singh and the British Prime Minister, Modi said that " the details of the talk should be made public." </span>
On Thursday, talking to a group of women journalists here, Singh said he couldn't sleep at night after he saw the distraught family of detained Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef pleading on TV
The PM also spoke to his British counterpart Gordon Brown and assured him all possible help in the investigations.
Singh had cautioned against dubbing anybody or any country as a terrorist, saying if any community is targeted, it would create "new sets of grievances".
"It is wrong to label any community or country. We have to look for solutions," Singh said in the wake of two Indians being held for their suspected involvement in the failed terror plots of London and Brisbane.
"If a particular community is targeted, it will create a new set of grievances," the Prime Minister had said.
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi]
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on the arrest of Indians in the UK terror plot was motivated by vote bank considerations and demanded that the PM's talk with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown be made public.
Criticising the PM's remarks that he could not sleep at night after watching the images of the family members of those implicated in the terror plots, Modi said such sympathetic words from the country's Prime Minister had hurt the feeling of crores of citizens.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>In a statement, Modi had asked if the PM had lost his sleep over the plight of the family members of the jawans who are killed while fighting terrorists in Kashmir.
"Why did the PM not lose his sleep when several people were killed in the Mumbai bomb blasts," Modi asked. Asserting that the country had a right to know what transpired between Manmohan Singh and the British Prime Minister, Modi said that " the details of the talk should be made public." </span>
On Thursday, talking to a group of women journalists here, Singh said he couldn't sleep at night after he saw the distraught family of detained Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef pleading on TV
The PM also spoke to his British counterpart Gordon Brown and assured him all possible help in the investigations.
Singh had cautioned against dubbing anybody or any country as a terrorist, saying if any community is targeted, it would create "new sets of grievances".
"It is wrong to label any community or country. We have to look for solutions," Singh said in the wake of two Indians being held for their suspected involvement in the failed terror plots of London and Brisbane.
"If a particular community is targeted, it will create a new set of grievances," the Prime Minister had said.
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