Set your house in order first, Congress tells Narendra Modi

Strongly condemning Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's remarks on former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, a senior Uttar Pradesh Congress leader today said Modi should "first set his own house in order".
       
"It is wrong to make such comments against the people who had laid the foundation of the policies and programmes after independence," Congress legislature party leader Pramod Tewari said in the letter to Modi.
       
Modi had reportedly said if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been made the first prime minister of independent India instead of Nehru, the country would not have faced terrorism.

"It (Modi's remark) amounts to showing disrespect to these great personalities," Tewari said.
       
Tewari said it was wrong to project differences between Nehru and Patel as they actually had very strong ties.
 
Referring to 2002 Gujarat riots, he said the episode had even prompted the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to advise Modi to follow 'raj dharma'.

"Now even your own partymen are blaming you for the defeat in the recent Lok Sabha elections," Tewari said adding that Modi should first try to set his own house in order.