Prime Minister Singh Monday said BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is not a "threat" to the Congress as people know what he "stands for".
"(He is) No threat to us. People of India know what Modi stands for," he said to queries about the Gujarat chief minister, who was appointed the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election campaign committee at the party's national executive meet in Goa.
Talking to reporters after the oath-taking ceremony of eight new ministers in his ministerial council at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, Manmohan Singh also said that people of India have already drawn their own conclusions about Modi.
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