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Manmohan has lost his mental balance, says BJP
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Posted online: Friday , October 19, 2007 at 12:00:00
Updated: Friday , October 19, 2007 at 02:26:08
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New Delhi, October 19: The BJP hit back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calling his attack on it as ‘desperate rattling’ of a ‘much weakened’ leader who neither has authority in the Cabinet nor enjoys the backing of the Congress and supporting parties.

Launching a fresh personal offensive against the Prime Minister, the main Opposition party countered the charges levelled by him against the NDA-led government on Thursday one by one and rubbished them as a ‘creeky response of a crumbling government’.

"The tirade by the Prime Minister against BJP is not only condemnable but outrageous. It is a desperate rattling of a Prime Minister who is much weakened and who does not enjoy authority in the cabinet, backing of his party and supporting parties," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

He said the Prime Minister has ‘lost his mental balance’ when he styles Agra summit as a ‘fiasco’ as the talks were unsuccessful because of the Vajpayee government's ‘determined stand’ that there will not be any compromise on cross-border terrorism.

"Vajpayee government's foreign policy proved to be successful in January, 2004 when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf pledged not to allow terrorist activities from his soil. We lost this success when Prime Minister Singh dubbed Pakistan as a victim of terrorism," Prasad added.

The BJP also took objection to Prime Minister's assertion that senior BJP leader L K Advani as Home Minister had given a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government over the 2002 ‘holocaust’, a reference to the post-Godhra riots.

"Singh is a late entrant in politics by accident. He has developed selective amnesia. He has described the unfortunate riots in Gujarat as a holocaust. Then we would like to know his views on the selective, gruesome and targeted killings of Sikhs in 1984," Prasad asked.

He claimed that Singh, who was a civil servant at the time of the anti-Sikh riots, had not even registered his protest then and now the CBI, which functions under him, has also given a ‘questionable report’ in favour of Jagdish Tytler who ‘played a key role in the killings’.

Replying to the Prime Minister's reference to the Kargil war, Prasad said in Kargil ‘each and every inch of land was reclaimed, whereas during wars under the Congress rule in 1962 and 1965 India lost territory in Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast’.

"The fiasco, Mr Singh, is Congress' sadistic communalism and patronisation of terror elements," he said adding the Prime Minister's ‘tirade’ against the BJP was a ‘creeky response of a crumbling government’.

He also trained his guns at Singh on the Indo-US nuclear deal issue, saying he did not even think for a minute before making a U-turn on the agreement.