Miriti (WB), Oct 4: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the differences between him and Home Minister P Chidambaram were a “closed chapter” and asserted that the government “is in command of things”.
“Myself and Mr Chidambaram addressed the media and the chapter is closed and he (Chidambaram) admitted it. So there is no no question.....,” he told NDTV at his ancestral home where he is currently staying for performing Durga puja.
Mukherjee admitted that in a multi-party political system in the party there can be “differences sometimes”.
He was asked whether the “public making up” between him and Chidambaram signalled the end of the rift.
To a question about the impression that there were “serious cracks” in the government and it was a “house divided” that would collapse any time, the minister said “if you go by the classical theory of the opposition, the role of the opposition is oppose, expose and depose, if possible. PTI
