Jairam to blame for policy paralysis during UPA-2: Moily
New Delhi: With senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily blaming party's Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh for the "policy paralysis" during the UPA-2 government, it seems the game to arrest the attention of their mentors have started in the grand old party.
While lashing out at Congress' Ramesh for saying that "demonising" Narendra Modi all the time "was not an effective strategy", Moily on Wednesday countered Ramesh by saying that as if the Congress is demonising (Modi).
"He (Ramesh) is responsible for policy paralysis of our government (UPA-2) and he is also responsible for compromising the principles of governance many a time," Moily said.
Moily, the former Union minister, also castigated Congress' Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor for his statement that praising Modi for doing the right things would lend credibility to the Opposition's criticism of him.
Moily's comments came after a day when the Congress high command expressed its disapproval of the remarks made by Tharoor, Jairam Ramesh and Abhishek Singhvi.
At the party briefing on Tuesday, senior leader Anand Sharma had said: "If the Opposition indulges in singing paeans (of the government), then it will spell doom for democracy."
Sharma had also said that the party's Kerala unit has the right to make a statement and argued that it is not the Congress that is insulting the BJP leadership but the saffron party which has been demonising its leadership, including former Prime Ministers.
Describing the statements as "most unfortunate", Moily called on the Congress leadership to take appropriate disciplinary action against the two leaders.
He further said that Ramesh's remark was in "very bad taste," and accused the leader of "compromising himself" with the BJP with such a statement.
"And any leader who would like to give such a statement, I think, they are not doing service to the Congress party or its leadership," said Moily, who is considered to be a close aide of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Stating that Tharoor was never considered as a mature politician, Moily added: "He (Tharoor) is often on and off fond of giving statements and finding his place in the press."
