‘Pak interference’: Apologise to Manmohan, Ansari, Cong tells Modi

New Delhi, December 11 : The Congress on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to former Vice-President Hamid Ansari and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for “insinuating” that they were colluding with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the Gujarat Assembly elections.
Perceiving a “clear defeat” in Gujarat, the Prime Minister was “frustrated and using foul language” to rouse sympathy for himself, Congress leader Anand Sharma said here, a day after Modi accused the party and elements in Pakistan of working together to defeat the BJP.
The Congress was reacting to Modi’s charge in a public meeting on Sunday in Gujarat that Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s “neech” remark came after a dinner at his house the previous day attended by former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, its current High Commissioner in India besides Ansari and Singh, among others.
“Today Prime Minister, in his frustration and perceiving a clear defeat, wants to divert the attention of people. PM should take his words back and to maintain the dignity of his post, should apologise.