Gujarat CM Narendra Modi has threatened to initiate legal proceedings against a local Congress leader for serving a notice asking him to apologise and withdraw his remarks calling the Prime Minister a "night watchman" of the Gandhi family. Replying to the legal notice issued last month by former Pradesh Congress Member K K Benson, Modi, through his advocates, asked him not to initiate any "false, frivolous and adventuristic complaint against him."
Modi termed as not true the statement that by calling the PM as "night watchman" he has insulted, degraded and defamed him in public and added that the demand that he apologise for it "is wholly untenable."
Benson had served a legal notice to Modi asking him to apologise and withdraw his remarks calling Prime Minister a "night watchman" of the Sonia Gandhi family.
Without naming Manmohan Singh, Modi on March 3 had said the Congress appointed a "night watchman" to keep the seat warm for the first family of the Congress. "They did not realise that the night will be so long and dark. As a buffer, they appointed an economist to the post," Modi had said.
Modi termed as not true the statement that by calling the PM as "night watchman" he has insulted, degraded and defamed him in public and added that the demand that he apologise for it "is wholly untenable."
Benson had served a legal notice to Modi asking him to apologise and withdraw his remarks calling Prime Minister a "night watchman" of the Sonia Gandhi family.
Without naming Manmohan Singh, Modi on March 3 had said the Congress appointed a "night watchman" to keep the seat warm for the first family of the Congress. "They did not realise that the night will be so long and dark. As a buffer, they appointed an economist to the post," Modi had said.
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