आज भाजपा नेता लालकृष्ण आडवाणी ने कर्नाटक में भाजपा की पराजय पर अपने
ब्लॉग में लिखा है कि मुझे इस हार पर विस्मय नहीं हुआ, बल्कि भाजपा जीतती तो विस्मय होता। उनका कहना है कि भाजपा ने नैतिक दृष्टि से भ्रष्टाचार को स्वीकार नहीं किया इसलिए यह पराजय हुई।
उनके ब्लॉग का रोचक हिस्सा था उसका टेलपीस, जिसमें उन्होंने प्रधानमंत्री को उलाहना दिया था कि अब मंत्रियों को हटाने का फैसला भी ऊपर से होता है। इतनी ही नहीं सोनिया गांधी अब मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार के बारे में भी फैसले करेंगी। इस टेलपीस ने कांग्रेसी नेृतृत्व को व्यथित कर दिया है। पहले इस टेलपीस को पढ़ें :-
TAILPIECE
Today’s PIONEER carries on its front page a highlighted box item captioned : SNUB TO PM? It goes on to say that Smt. Sonia Gandhi will be meeting senior party leaders soon to discuss the Cabinet reshuffle.
Has the Prime Minister abdicated his right even to decide about his own cabinet? Today’s news reports about the removal of two Union Ministers generally emphasise that it is Soniaji who has sacked ‘two PM’s men.’
Sheer self-respect demands that the PM calls it a day, and orders an early general election.
इस टेलपीस का असर था कि कांग्रेस को वक्तव्य जारी करके सफाई देनी पड़ी कि यह फैसला अकेले सोनिया गांधी का नहीं था, संयुक्त फैसला था। हिन्दू की वैबसाइट में इस खबर को इस तरह दिया गया:-
Dropping of P.K. Bansal and Ashwani Kumar from the Union Cabinet was the “joint decision” of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, the Congress said on Sunday dismissing reports that the action was at the insistence of the party president.
“It has appeared in a section of the media that it was at the insistence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi that the two Ministers were dropped. This perception is not correct.
“The correct position is that it was the joint decision of the Congress president and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,” party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said in New Delhi.
The statement of Mr. Dwivedi, the AICC Media Department chief, is significant as reports had suggested that Mr. Bansal and Mr. Kumar, seen to be close to the Prime Minister, were made to resign by him late on Friday after the Congress president expressed her displeasure over their continuance in office.
