Chandigarh: A major cancer hospital in Punjab, being inaugurated today in a function attended by Rahul Gandhi, has been dragged into a political controversy ahead of national polls due by May.
State Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal says he has not been invited to the event, and he is so upset that he has shot off an angry letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Mr Badal's aide quipped that "Rahul Gandhi would need Jupiter's escape velocity to escape the ire of Punjabis', referring to the Congress vice president's remarks on Dalits at a rally on Tuesday. (read)
Rahul Gandhi and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad are attending the inauguration of the 500-bed cancer hospital in Sangrur, 120 km from Chandigarh, to be run by the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. The Congress claims that the state's Chief Secretary was informed a week ago about the event.
"The Congress-led UPA government did not have the courtesy to invite us to the function. The Congress leaders shouldn't have stooped so low for this great public cause" Mr Badal fumed.
State Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal says he has not been invited to the event, and he is so upset that he has shot off an angry letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Mr Badal's aide quipped that "Rahul Gandhi would need Jupiter's escape velocity to escape the ire of Punjabis', referring to the Congress vice president's remarks on Dalits at a rally on Tuesday. (read)
Rahul Gandhi and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad are attending the inauguration of the 500-bed cancer hospital in Sangrur, 120 km from Chandigarh, to be run by the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. The Congress claims that the state's Chief Secretary was informed a week ago about the event.
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"The Congress-led UPA government did not have the courtesy to invite us to the function. The Congress leaders shouldn't have stooped so low for this great public cause" Mr Badal fumed.
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