PM reacts to 'weak UPA', blames coalition politics

October 20, 2011 12:04

Moving on from Ms Bedi, the PM reacts to Sharad Pawar's statement of a 'weak UPA'.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "We are in a coalition government. In a coalition government, there are bound to be differences," Singh said when referred to remarks by Agriculture Minister and NCP chief that the UPA-II was "weak" and the attitude of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on various issues.

"The real test is that we should not allow these differences to undermine cohesiveness of the government," the Prime Minister said last evening while interacting with accompanying journalists on board his special plane on his way
back from Pretoria after a three-day visit.

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