BJP slams demand for Manohar Parrikar’s resignation

Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday slammed the Congress for demanding Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s resignation, saying that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was ill too in his last years in office

. “Our late Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in the last three years of his tenure, was ill. He was suffering from paralysis and could not function as a Prime Minister ought to. At that time, our leaders, including Atal Bihari Vajpayee, or the Jan Sangh did not take out a morcha to his house and demand his resignation, as we saw in Goa,” state BJP President Vinay Tendulkar said at a press conference in Panaji. (IANS)

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