Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a swipe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not voting in the recently concluded Assam assembly elections.
“Today, when we are celebrating the birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, I am pained to learn that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not vote in the assembly elections in Assam,” Modi said, speaking to reporters at a seminar at the Pandit Deen Dayal Petroleum University.
“Ambedkarji gave us the Constitution, and the Constitution gave us the right to vote. To know that the Prime Minister did not vote in the assembly polls is a very saddening act, for the people of the country,” he said.
“It is even more saddening, on the birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar,” Modi said.
On Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave a miss to his right to vote in the Assam Assembly election.
Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur are registered voters in Assam’s Dispur Assembly constituency where the polling took place. The Prime Minister is a Rajya Sabha member from Assam for the last two decades and a voter of the state since then.
-Agencies