Union minister Ramdas Athawale mentioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi ought to have change into the prime minister when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) first got here to energy in 2004, including that her “foreign origin” problem was meaningless as she was an Indian citizen and Member of Lok Sabha. .
Addressing a press convention in Indore on Saturday, Athawale mentioned: “When the UPA bought a majority within the 2004 elections, I had proposed that Sonia Gandhi ought to change into the Prime Minister. I believed that the difficulty of his international origin made no sense. If Kamala Harris can change into the Vice President of America, then why cannot Sonia Gandhi, a citizen of India, spouse of Rajiv Gandhi (former PM) and elected Lok Sabha MP, change into the Prime Minister?
He additionally mentioned that if Sonia Gandhi was not prepared to just accept the publish of PM at the moment then she ought to have made veteran chief and NCP chief Sharad Pawar as PM as an alternative of Manmohan Singh.
Describing Pawar as a public chief and a deserving candidate for the publish of PM, the RPI(A) chief mentioned, “He (Pawar) should have been made PM in place of Manmohan Singh but Sonia Gandhi did not.”
Incidentally, Pawar was expelled from the Congress in 1999 for elevating the difficulty of Sonia Gandhi’s international origin. He later fashioned the NCP, which is now in alliance with the Congress and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
Athawale additionally mentioned that if Pawar had change into the nation’s PM in 2004, the Congress’s place would have been strengthened and that get together might have been saved from its current precarious scenario.
Athawale additionally appealed to Amarinder Singh, who had lately resigned as Punjab chief minister as a consequence of a wrestle for energy within the state’s get together unit, in view of the “insults” meted out to him by the Congress or the BJP or the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). ) to be concerned in. .
“If Singh joins the BJP, the party’s position will be strengthened in the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab,” he mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
