No cause for worry during vote on FDI retail: Shinde

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 2:10 AM IST

"Let's not worry at all. Tomorrow 6 o'clock, everything will be clear and we will get the result," Leader of Lok Sabha and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters here.

Shinde was replying to a question on what would be UPA's strategy as its outside supporters Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party were yet to clarify their stand on the vote in the Lower House.

Asked why he lost his temper during a discussion in Parliament, Shinde said a Shiv Sena MP was attacking the government and he got angry as he was using some unparliamentary words and he wanted to have the words expunged. "That was the only reason," he said.

On anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal's criticism of Congress, the Home Minister said Kejriwal had formed a party and he was free to criticise whoever he wishes. "What else he can do, he can criticise," he said.

  

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First Published: Dec 04 2012 | 9:35 PM IST

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