Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming that the Congress was upset because he was “tightening the screws” on those linked to corruption, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday said the language used by Mr. Modi was “unbecoming of a Prime Minister.”
“From Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, none has used such language. He must remember a Prime Minister is always a Prime Minister, even when he addresses a political rally,” Mr. Chidambaram said in an interview to The Hindu here.
The next parliamentary election would see the emergence of a strong anti-BJP front led by the Congress, Mr. Chidambaram said.
“In Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry, they will come a cropper. Forty per cent of their term is over, but they have delivered nothing,” he said and predicted that “more bad news will come for them in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.”
Mr. Chidambaram charged there is a tacit understanding between the AIADMK and the BJP. In Delhi, the AIADMK, which has 37 Lok Sabha MPs, was the “virtual B team of the BJP”. And in Tamil Nadu, the BJP was the AIADMK’s virtual B team. “They will neither work together nor fight each other. It is a tacit understanding to live and let live.”
‘Tactical alliance’He distinguished between the “tactical alliance” of the Left and Congress in West Bengal and the situation in Tamil Nadu, where the party has no idea of joining hands with the third front that includes the Left.
