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Congress
ignores Mani Shankar Aiyar's comments
Tuesday July 26, 2011 08:08:22 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A day after former union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar compared the
people coming to the Congress party office to those coming to a
"circus" and blamed former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao for
demolition of the Babri Mosque, the Congress chose not to respond
to his comments.
"You are seeing Congress party for many years. You know Mr Aiyar
very well," Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said to questions
about Aiyar's remarks at a book release function Sunday.
Aiyar had said that only those who had lost all hope go to 24,
Akbar Road (the party headquarters) as the powerful in the party
have access to 10, Janpath (residence of party president Sonia
Gandhi), or 23, Willingdon Crescent (address of Sonia Gandhi's
political secretary Ahmed Patel).
Aiyar also said that a kind of fair is held at the 24, Akbar road
and if one wants to be a part of the Congress, then one will have
to join that "circus". He said sometimes one achieves success and
sometimes one may fail, but there is always faith about achieving
something.
Aiyar said unlike other parties, which are based on caste,
position, state, language or society, the Congress was a party
where people of different opinions can live harmoniously.
He said the partymen celebrate variety.
Aiyar also said that Rao was to be blamed for the 1992 demolition
of the Babri Mosque.
"He (Narasimha Rao) was the one who was responsible for what
happened in the Babri Masjid...It was the biggest disaster that
overtook this country because the rift valley in politics is not
between right wing economic policies and Left wing economic
policies, it is over the nature of our nationhood. Are we a
secular nation?" Aiyar said.
Talking about the economic policies, Aiyar said the Congress has
wrestled with the question of the new economic policy in such a
manner that people like him, who have serious reservations, are
marginalised.
He said the party as a whole is behind Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh.
Aiyar said the economic growth pattern has resulted in the
country's position to remain at 134 from the last 17 years in
United Nations Human Development Index.
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