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“BJP least qualified to talk about the moral right to govern” Opposition party is responsible for Gujarat “holocaust” ABOARD PM’S SPECIAL AIRCRAFT: While conceding that the government’s image was affected in the wake of the controversy over the India-U.S. nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party for seeking his resignation. He hoped the government’s efforts to evolve a consensus with its allies and the supporting Left parties would “enable us to move forward.” On the BJP’s demand that he resign, as “he had lost the moral right to govern,” Dr. Singh said: “The BJP, of all political parties, is the least qualified to talk about the moral right to govern.” He referred to the BJP’s years in power at the Centre and held it responsible for the “holocaust” in Gujarat, with the Union Home Minister, L. K. Advani, giving a clean chit to the State government despite the massacres “we all saw” in 2002. Agra fiascoThe BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government also presided over the “fiasco” at Agra (India-Pakistan talks) leading to a collapse of the peace process. “We also know why the Kargil War took place. When the infiltrators were coming in, the government in Delhi was sleeping. The BJP has no right to say about moral governance,” he said. Dr. Singh was talking to the accompanying journalists at the end of his visit to Nigeria and South Africa. Elaborating his observation at Tshwane (Pretoria) on the possibility of a consensus on the nuclear deal with the Left parties, he said the process to resolve the “problems at home” was on. “I have maintained there are some difficulties. We are a coalition. We have to find a way out. I have not given up hope yet,” he said in reply to a question whether he was still hopeful of a consensus with the Left parties ahead of the next meeting of the UPA-Left meeting early next week. Asked about his expectations at the meeting, he said he would not like to pre-judge the end result. On whether the government’s image was affected, Dr. Singh said: “When something doesn’t work out the way you plan, it does have an effect. But, as I said last week, this is not a one-issue government. We have lots of things on the agenda. We have done many things and there are lots of things to be done. So, I think there is a setback in one direction but I wouldn’t say it is end of life.”
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