BJP attacks Krishna, says proving to be another Shivraj Patil

New Delhi, July 30 (PTI) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Thursday targeted Indian External Affairs Minister S M
Krishna, likening him to former Indian Home Minister Shivraj
Patil and said the country's foreign policy is not safe in his
hands.

"He (Krishna) is proving to be the former Home
Minister Shivraj Patil whom Congress had to get rid of
ultimately. It's only that he is taking much less time in
proving to be another Shivraj Patil," senior BJP leader
Yashwant Sinha told reporters outside Parliament.

Objecting to the manner in which Krishna replied to
the debate in Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) on
the issue of Indo-Pak joint statement, he said, "The country's
foreign policy is not safe in the hands of this External
Affairs Minister....I do not know what faux pas will be
created in international and bilateral meetings if things are
left to this minister".

Sinha said Patil, who resigned in the aftermath of the
Mumbai terror strikes last year after coming under attack for
his handling of internal security issues, had taken some time
in "destroying" the Home Ministry but Krishna "will do the
same to External Affairs Ministry in very little time".

The BJP leader also questioned the need for Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee to intervene in the debate in the
presence of Krishna.

"We saw a very strange incident in Lok Sabha today.
Government fielded Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to
intervene in the debate. For the FM to intervene in the debate
when the External Affairs Minister was present was strange.

"The Prime Minister and the Finance Minsiter will not
be around on all occasions to hold his (Krishna's) hand,"
Sinha said. PTI AMR
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