Sonia was eagerly waiting to be PM in 2004: Govindacharya

--‘Kalam should reveal more info about PM drama’

BHUBANESWAR: “Kalam should have mentioned all about the Prime Minister selection in 2004, but he preferred not to and that there by gives confusion in creation of a kind and image building of Sonia Gandhi,” said patron and national advisor of the Bharat Vikas Sangam (BVS) KN Govindacharya to the presspersons at a organisational meeting of BVS here on Sunday.       

He said Kalam is not a politician and does not want to join in the issues, so he must have skipped the inconvenient fact which ought to get mentioned in the book if he wanted to write in comprehensive manner. Passing reference to the whole episode, he might have decided to not mention all these things in the text, he added.

“As far as he has given certificate to Sonia is concerned, it totally misleads,” he said adding, “It does not have any credence at all, because when you juxtaposed to situations from 1999 to May 17, 2004, the picture is Sonia Gandhi very much wanted to be the Prime Minister of India. She was also very eager to take oath for the post, but situation prevented.”

“If she didn’t have very inclination to become PM in 2004, she ought not to have become the Loksabha leader of Congress, leader of Congress and then concerning her as the Parliamentary party leader and then on May 16 she became UPA leader also. So up to May 16, she showed inclination, but what all happened on May 17,” questioned Govindacharya. Kalam should have mentioned all those aspects also, but he preferred not to and that there by gives confusion in creation of a kind and image building of Sonia Gandhi, he added.

It may be noted that former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s new book ‘Turning Points’ which revisits the eight-year-old controversy surrounding his alleged reluctance to appoint Italy-born Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister in 2004 triggered a war of words between the Congress and the BJP on Saturday.