Modi fires another salvo at Sonia, charges PMO office
12 Oct 2012 12:13 AM GMT
Accusing the UPA government of treating Gujarat as an ‘enemy state’, Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said the Prime Minister’s Office [PMO] was concealing information about Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s trips abroad. He also reiterated that his focus was Gujarat and reports of his prime ministerial ambitions were mere speculation.
In an interview, Modi said he had not asked about expenses incurred on Sonia Gandhi’s treatment but on her foreign visits. He accused the PMO of concealing information under the RTI and said it had only answered on Sonia Gandhi’s visits for treatment, not her foreign trips.
He said the PMO was not respecting RTI and the entire issue was maligning Gandhi’s image. ‘That’s why I asked the PMO to come out with the exact figures.’
Asked about his claim that Rs.1,880 crore had been spent in the last three years on Sonia Gandhi’s foreign visits, Modi said newspapers and magazines had given the figure based on an agency report. ‘I just talked about the figures published in newspapers. The RTI activists are raising questions, not me.’
POINTING FINGERS
MODI PASSES THE BUCK, BLAMES NEWS AGENCY
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made a false claim that PTI had reported in July that Sonia Gandhi’s foreign trips had cost Rs 1,880 crore during a three-year period. Modi, who has stirred a controversy over government expenses on Gandhi’s foreign tours, told a news channel, ‘In the month of July, Outlook magazine, Times of India, Indian Express and some other newspapers reported from the news of PTI that Madam Soniaji’s three years of foreign tour expenses are Rs 1,880 crore. So, I raised the question that it has been three months since July and why isn’t the Government of India giving a clarification.’ The publication of such ‘wrong reports’ should be clarified, he said. PTI would like to make it clear that it had not issued any such story.
In an interview, Modi said he had not asked about expenses incurred on Sonia Gandhi’s treatment but on her foreign visits. He accused the PMO of concealing information under the RTI and said it had only answered on Sonia Gandhi’s visits for treatment, not her foreign trips.
He said the PMO was not respecting RTI and the entire issue was maligning Gandhi’s image. ‘That’s why I asked the PMO to come out with the exact figures.’
Asked about his claim that Rs.1,880 crore had been spent in the last three years on Sonia Gandhi’s foreign visits, Modi said newspapers and magazines had given the figure based on an agency report. ‘I just talked about the figures published in newspapers. The RTI activists are raising questions, not me.’
POINTING FINGERS
- Modi says he had not asked about expenses incurred on Sonia Gandhi’s treatment but on her foreign visits
- He accuses the PMO of concealing information under the RTI and said it had only answered on Sonia Gandhi’s visits for treatment, not her foreign trips
- Modi says that he talked about the figures in the newspapers and it was the RTI activists raising questions, not him
MODI PASSES THE BUCK, BLAMES NEWS AGENCY
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made a false claim that PTI had reported in July that Sonia Gandhi’s foreign trips had cost Rs 1,880 crore during a three-year period. Modi, who has stirred a controversy over government expenses on Gandhi’s foreign tours, told a news channel, ‘In the month of July, Outlook magazine, Times of India, Indian Express and some other newspapers reported from the news of PTI that Madam Soniaji’s three years of foreign tour expenses are Rs 1,880 crore. So, I raised the question that it has been three months since July and why isn’t the Government of India giving a clarification.’ The publication of such ‘wrong reports’ should be clarified, he said. PTI would like to make it clear that it had not issued any such story.
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