Accusing the UPA government of "mismanagement", senior BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday said the Congress was trying to shift the blame for the price spiral on state governments.
Reacting to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's speech in West Bengal on Monday, the senior party leader said, "her attempt to shift the blame for price rise on state governments is a disingenuous attempt to hide the failure and mismanagement of the Central government."
Advani, who was addressing a meeting of the parliamentary party here, said Gandhi has "broken her silence" on the violence in Nandigram for the first time after the communist parties started protesting against the government's failure to contain price rise.
Gandhi in a public meeting at Behrampur had charged the West Bengal government with failure to contain violence in Nandigram and said there is no place for political violence in a democracy.
“Sonia knows nothing about West Bengal” Basu
Marxist leader Jyoti Basu said here on Tuesday there was no reason to give importance to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s remarks during her visit to the State on Monday.
Coming out of a Polit Bureau meeting, which he attended as a special invitee, Mr. Basu said “Her words cannot be taken seriously.”
Asked about Ms. Gandhi’s criticism of law and order in the State and comments on the sufferings of people in Nandigram during the unrest there, he said, “She knows nothing of West Bengal.” Ms. Gandhi had no comments to offer on the peoples’ hardships due to price rise. “Controlling the prices is the duty of the Centre and also a commitment in the Common Minimum Programme, which it is not abiding by.”
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