Kamat calls Modi his best friend

Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat has termed his Gujarat counterpart and BJP leader Narendra Modi his best friend,a remark which has not gone down well with his colleagues in the Congress.

Kamat said at a press meet that Modi was his best friend and he would visit Gujarat if the state invited him. When I am in Delhi for any conference,I have Sheila Dikshit on one side and Narendra Modi on the other. He is my best friend, Kamat,who was earlier in the BJP,said Thursday.

Kamats remark did not go down well with state party leaders who said it was for the party high command to act on the matter. You have to ask him why he said so. It is for the party high command to act, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhash Shirodkar said.