Why Khurshid is bugged with the PM
August 24, 2013  13:47

Our Correspondent in New Delhi reports: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is upset with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for appointing his blue-eyed boy, former law minister Ashwini Kumar, as his special envoy for Japan.  

 

For four months, Ashwini Kumar will operate from the PMO: His brief to coordinate Japanese Emperor Akihito's visit to India in November. A letterhead is being designed for Ashwini Kumar with a three lion government emblem; on the right corner, his new designation: Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India.  

 

Ashwini Kumar's appointment intrudes on the ministry of external affairs's turf, which is why Khurshid is peeved with the PM.  

 

He is not the only one. Many Congress leaders from Punjab can't understand Dr Manmohan Singh's affection for Ashwini Kumar who resigned a few months ago after the Coalgate controversy.

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