Rupee in ICU, why did Tamils send Chidambaram to Delhi, asks Narendra Modi in Chennai Narendra Modi with Cho Ramaswamy at Madras University Chennai: Narendra Modi, who was delivering the Nani Palkhiwala memorial lecture in Chennai this evening, did not take very long to get into election mode, ripping once again into the UPA government and particularly targeting the Prime Minister and select ministers. Without a strong economy, he said, the world would not get attracted to India. Today our rupee is in ICU, I dont know why Tamil people sent this person to Delhi, referring to Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who belongs to Tamil Nadu and is also a Lok Sabha MP from the state. (Watch: Narendra Modi delivers Nani Palkhiwala memorial lecture in Chennai) The BJPs presumptive prime minister also launched a sharp attack on the Centres foreign policy. He said the government was making a mockery of itself with its handling of relations with Pakistan and China, drawing context from the launch of a book by Arun Shourie on Indias relationship with China. Our foreign minister goes to China and says he wants to stay on in Beijing... I wish such people stay on in Beijing, we dont need them, he said in an attack on external affairs minister Salman Khurshid. He did not spare Mr Khurshids predecessor either and recalled, Our foreign minister at a big international forum, reads the speech of another country, referring to a faux pas by the Congress SM Krishna some years ago. (Highlights of Mr Modis speech) India, the Gujarat Chief Minister said, needed the diplomatic skills of someone like the BJPs former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He recalled that Mr Vajpayee was foreign minister in the Janata Party government when legal luminary Nani Palkhiwala was sent to Washington as Indias ambassador, an important point in relations with that country, he said. Mr Vajpayee, he said, had conducted Nuclear tests, not fearing global sanctions because he enjoyed the...
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:32:49 +0000