In a strong response to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s recent allegation that he runs a government “of some people, by one person and for a select few”, PM Modi also said, “Perhaps, she is referring to the fact that earlier extra-constitutional authorities were the ones really wielding power.”
The Prime Minister said in the current dispensation, power is now “wielded only by constitutional means”. If the charge is that “we are working through constitutional channels and not listening to any extra constitutional authorities, then I plead guilty to that charge,” PM Modi said in an interview to news agency Press Trust of India.
Political rivals have accused Mrs Gandhi of calling the shots in the previous Congress-led UPA government of Manmohan Singh.
Mrs Gandhi had made the scathing attack on PM Modi’s government in Parliament earlier this month, also accusing it of “obstinate arrogance.”
On her son and deputy Rahul Gandhi calling the BJP-led government at the Centre a “suit-boot ki sarkar” PM Modi said the Congress had not been able to “digest” its crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls even after one year.
“The people have punished them for their sins of omission and commission. We thought they would learn from this, but it looks as though they are proving right the earlier saying that if con is the opposite of pro, then Congress is the opposite of progress,” the PM said.
In the interview, the Prime Minister has also spoken about the controversial land acquisition bill, criticism of his foreign tours, the government’s reforms agenda, among other things.
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