Azad hits back at Modi on Pranab issue

Senior Congress leader and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today hit back at BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for blaming the Gandhi family for twice denying the opportunity to Pranab Mukherjee to be the country's Prime Minister.
"What we do in our party is none of his (Modi's) concern," he told reporters on the sidelines of the 18th Convocation of National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences here.
Modi, at BJP's rally in Kolkata, had blamed the Gandhi family for twice denying the opportunity to Mukherjee to be the country's Prime Minister and urged people of Bengal not to forget this.

On the emergence of a Third Front ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Azad said all political parties enjoy the right to form a group.
"This is democracy. Every political party has the right to form a group and individuals join any other party. I can't say anything about the Third Front," he said.
Signalling emergence of a third front, eleven non-Congress and non-BJP parties today formally joined hands as a block in Parliament to pitch for pro-people, anti-communal and federal agenda.