Kiran Bedi termed PM as Dhritrashtra
Varanasi. Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Team Anna compare the congress leader to Dhritrashtra, the blind king of Mahabharata. The Congress has condemned the team anna’s remark, saying that the movement against corruption is now converted into into a personal campaign and personal ambition.
“Neither he (PM) is trying to see the things nor speaking anything against the wrong doings,” she said while talking to reporters at Varanasi on Monday.
Bedi, however, made it clear that her remarks (describing PM as Dhritrashtra) were not against Manmohan Singh but against the office of the Prime Minister for overlooking faults.
“I did not term Manmohan Singh as Dhritrashtra but the office of the PM,” she said, adding that had the PMO kept its eye open, the irregularities in allotment of coal blocks and loss to the nation could have been prevented.
Her comments came after the Prime Minister’s Office turned down Team Anna’s demand for a special team to probe charges against cabinet ministers for alleged irregularities in coal blocks allocation.
Reacting to her remarks, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, said: “There are many questions they (Team Anna) must first answer. I don’t think they have a right to ask questions… I don’t think they are being very helpful or good to the democracy in our country.”
“We all felt that they started off with a good idea – the idea of containing corruption or questioning corruption. But now they are doing greatest disservice to this idea by converting it into a personal campaign and personal ambition,” he said.
