New Delhi: Hitting back at Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her sharp attacks on him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday suggested that she had been an “unconstitutional” authority exercising “real” power over the PMO during the UPA rule, whereas power was now wielded only by constitutional means.
Dismissing the Congress president’s accusation that the NDA government was showing “obstinate arrogance” in Parliament and that it was a government by “one person”, Mr Modi said, “Perhaps, she is referring to earlier extra-Constitutional authorities were the ones really wielding power.”
He said that power was now “wielded only by constitutional means”. If the charge is “we are working through Constitutional channels and not listening to extra-Constitutional authorities, then I plead guilty to that charge”.
