Cong,NCP downplay remarks made on Sonia,Rahul

Congress and NCP sought to downplay the controversy after controversial remarks were made about Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in an NCP-supported magazine Rashtravadi.

Congress and NCP sought to downplay the controversy that kicked up after controversial remarks were made about Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in the NCP-supported magazine Rashtravadi.

“There is no problem between NCP and Congress…We have no difference with the Congress. We are going together in the election,” senior NCP leader and Union Minister Praful Patel told reporters today outside Parliament.

“If they have clarified,it is okay,” Congress Mumbai President Kripa Shankar Singh said indicating that Congress may not press its demand for an apology from NCP over the issue now. Patel also sought to disassociate the party from the comments made in the magazine,saying “it (Rashtravadi) is not the mouthpiece of NCP.”

“Whatever there (in Rashtravadi) has appeared,may be a completely personal view. NCP disassociates with the view absolutely…We do not share the perspective…We don’t subscribe to it,” Patel said.

“It (Rashtravadi) is of course a magazine which was initially supported by NCP but not as an official mouthpiece. Today,it is not even being run by the NCP directly…this is not our mouthpiece,” he added.

Rashtravadi,widely believed to be NCP’s mouthpiece,had in its editorial a few days back attacked Congress Party and its leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi,provoking Congress to seek any apology from NCP.

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