Mrs and Mr Mani Shankar Shankar Aiyar hosted a dinner for their friends including Manmohan Singh, Gen.Deepak Kumar, Hamid Ansari, Khurshid Kasuri and the Pakistan High Commissioner. There is nothing wrong or criminal about this.
It is true that one does not expect a former prime minister or a retired army general or a former vice president to hobnob with diplomats of a country with whom we have strained relations. In particular, Manmohan Singh could have exercised better discretion and stayed away.
This ill-planned dinner meeting has made Narendra Modi see red. He is obviously trying to sway the Gujarat voters away from Congress taking advantage of this opportunity gifted to him by Mani Shankar Aiyar who is a serial malapropist.
The Congress party queered the pitch further by denying the meeting altogether till confirmations of the meeting came from all directions. Manmohan Singh had no hesitation in confirming the dinner-meet though he lashed out at Modi for the latter's innuendo.Singh's explanation is funny:
“I reject the innuendos and falsehoods as I did not discuss Gujarat elections with anyone else at the dinner hosted by Mani Shankar Aiyar as alleged by Modi,” Singh said. “Nor was the Gujarat issue raised by anyone else present at the dinner. The discussion was confined to India-Pakistan relations.”
When he says "I did not discuss Gujarat elections with anyone else", does he mean that he discussed with some and not anyone else? Or, did he discuss only with himself?
It is true that one does not expect a former prime minister or a retired army general or a former vice president to hobnob with diplomats of a country with whom we have strained relations. In particular, Manmohan Singh could have exercised better discretion and stayed away.
This ill-planned dinner meeting has made Narendra Modi see red. He is obviously trying to sway the Gujarat voters away from Congress taking advantage of this opportunity gifted to him by Mani Shankar Aiyar who is a serial malapropist.
The Congress party queered the pitch further by denying the meeting altogether till confirmations of the meeting came from all directions. Manmohan Singh had no hesitation in confirming the dinner-meet though he lashed out at Modi for the latter's innuendo.Singh's explanation is funny:
“I reject the innuendos and falsehoods as I did not discuss Gujarat elections with anyone else at the dinner hosted by Mani Shankar Aiyar as alleged by Modi,” Singh said. “Nor was the Gujarat issue raised by anyone else present at the dinner. The discussion was confined to India-Pakistan relations.”
When he says "I did not discuss Gujarat elections with anyone else", does he mean that he discussed with some and not anyone else? Or, did he discuss only with himself?
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