Have Sonia and Manmohan actually made up?

GN Bureau | May 23, 2013



While the alleged rift between the Congress president and the prime minister was not exactly a state secret till even a few days back, Sonia Gandhi backed Manmohan Singh to the hilt at UPA’s ninth anniversary celebrations in New Delhi on May 22. “We respect him and we all stand by him,” Gandhi said about Singh. This bonhomie comes days after Congress leaders close to 10 Janpath allegedly compelled Singh to drop Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal, the two men said to be close to him and whom he had handpicked, from his cabinet. The rift between the PM and his party chief was said to be at its height at the time.

So was the bonhomie at the UPA anniversary bash for real? Or is this just another attention-grabbing publicity stunt?

 

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