New Delhi, April 15: The opposition BJP today attacked the government saying while it was extending its support in the fight against Naxals, the “divided” treasury benches and Congress had been pulling down Home Minister P Chidamabaram.
Lambasting the government in the Rajya Sabha on the response to the Maoist attack in Dantewada which claimed 76 lives, Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said Chidamabaram’s task has been made difficult by senior Congress leaders like Digvijay Singh.
“We do not need a divided government”, Jaitley said adding, “What we don’t need is a government which tries to pull down its Home Minister.”
Singh, AICC General Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, had in a newspaper article questioned Chidambaram’s handling of the Maoist menace as a mere law and order problem and accused him of “intellectual arrogance”.
–PTI