If PM Modi Didn’t Look In Sonia’s Eye Coz She Is Not Holding Any Office: Amit Shah

At the Diwali Milan for journalists at BJP HQ, Home Minister Amit Shah was apparently a style statement in understatement. He reportedly played down the rash of errors– about a total of 55 — in Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, Belonging: A Journey Of Love. He dismissed that the mistakes weren’t a big deal. However, what he found odd was that the Congress leader should have gone to great lengths to build a defence for her husband and former PM Rajiv Gandhi and his role in the Emergency. “Everyone knows Rajivji had no role in the Emergency. It was Sanjay Gandhi who played a key role. Rajivji was a pilot. In fact, most of the time — Rajivji and Soniaji were perhaps travelling outside the country,” he was quoted as saying. When Shah was asked to comment on Sonia’s observation in her memoir that PM Modi had made no eye contact with her, he remarked that this was quite possible as PM Modi has had no formal meeting with her since she held no office — she  was not Leader of  the Opposition like Mallikarjun Kharge (Rajya Sabha) or Rahul Gandhi (Lok Sabha ) but only a Rajya Sabha MP. He also suggested that the government was considering the possibility of having a special Parliament Session to pass the delimitation bill — that is increase number of Lok Sabha seats across states. Such buzz as usual has annoyed the Congress. A 3-day special session of the Parliament ahead of Winter Session could simply upset Rahul Gandhi’s travel plans to the U.S. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh warns such a delimitation bill would be defeated once again just as it was in April this year.