{"id":16053,"date":"2017-12-27T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2017-12-27T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:13:03","slug":"pm-modi-didnt-question-manmohan-singhs-commitment-to-nation-jaitley-clarifies-in-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pm-modi-didnt-question-manmohan-singhs-commitment-to-nation-jaitley-clarifies-in-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi Didn&#8217;t Question Manmohan Singh\u2019s Commitment to Nation: Jaitley Clarifies in Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Arun Jaitley Clarifies in Rajya Sabha Over PM Modi\u2019s Remarks on Manmohan Singh But Chaos Continues in Upper House<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New Delhi, Dec 27: Facing severe backlash from the Opposition in the ongoing winter session of Parliament over Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s remark on former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, the NDA Government on Wednesday came out with a clarification.<br \/>\nReading out a statement in Rajya Sabha, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said PM Modi never questioned the \u201ccommitment\u201d of either Manmohan Singh or former Vice-President Hamid Ansari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPM in his speeches didn\u2019t question, nor meant to question the commitment to this nation of either former PM Manmohan Singh or Former VP Hamid Ansari, any such perception is erroneous, we hold these leaders in high esteem, as well as their commitment to India,\u201d Arun Jaitley said. <\/p>\n<p>Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad also made a statement in the House over the party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar\u2019s \u201cneech\u201d remark directed at PM Modi.<br \/>\n\u201cThank leader of the house for clarification on what has been issue of contention. I, on behalf of my party, say that we disassociate from any comments made by any member during elections that may have hurt PM\u2019s dignity, also we don\u2019t want any such thing to be said in future,\u201d Azad said.<br \/>\nPM Modi, in one of his election rallies in Gujarat, had accused former PM Manmohan Singh of conspiring with Pakistan to influence the outcome of Assembly polls in his home state.<br \/>\nThe PM further claimed that Pakistani officials and Singh met a day before Mani Shankar Aiyar made the \u2018neech\u2019 jibe against him.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting took place at Aiyar\u2019s residence, he added, further raising questions on the alleged appeal by former director general (DG) of the Pakistan Army Sardar Arshad Rafiq for making senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel the CM of Gujarat.<br \/>\nBoth the Houses have witnessed repeated disruptions since the start of Winter Session of Parliament on December 15 over Prime Minister Modi\u2019s remarks against Singh.<br \/>\nThe Rajya Sabha, on the other hand, has seen daily adjournments, owing to repeated disruptions by the opposition over a demand for the Prime Minister, to come to the House, to give a clarification on his remark that Singh, was conspiring with Pakistan to ensure the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s defeat in the recently held elections in Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Singh has rejected the charge as \u201cinnuendos and falsehoods\u201d, and added he was deeply pained by the prime minister\u2019s \u201cill thought transgression\u201d.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arun Jaitley Clarifies in Rajya Sabha Over PM Modi\u2019s Remarks on Manmohan Singh But Chaos Continues in Upper House New Delhi, Dec 27: Facing severe backlash from the Opposition in the ongoing winter session of Parliament over Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s remark on former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, the NDA Government on Wednesday came [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16055,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions\/16055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}