PM Sings Peace Song, but Shows ‘No Regret’

Following a week long harsh verbal outburst against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate LK Advani, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh eventually declared a ceasefire, saying that he did not wish to “continue the match”. However, he had no regrets over his utterances. 

 “I don’t want to prolong the match and the dialogue. Whatever I had to say I have said already,” said the Prime Minister, who retaliated with sharp criticism after Advani repeatedly called him a “weak prime minister”.

When asked about his attack on Advani in an interview on a private TV channel, Singh said: “No. I don’t regret anything because Mr. Advani has been mudslinging for the last five years against me. He has been saying I am a nikamma PM, subservient to Sonia Gandhi that I am the weakest PM.”

“These are charges which have hurt me but I have never said anything. Mr. Advani has no business to complain. He started it, he’s been at it for last five years and it’s only now that I have replied to that sort of mudslinging,” Manmohan Singh reiterated.
Manmohan Singh had questioned his opponent’s record in the government and stated that the Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992 right under Advani’s nose and that he was the home minister when the BJP-led government freed terrorists in return for release of hostages aboard a hijacked Indian plane in Afghanistan in 1999.