Guwahati: With the BJP announcing Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Monday attacked the Gujarat chief minister on Twitter, questioning his "secularism".
"Where was Modi's secularism when his former minister Kodnani (since convicted and jailed) was involved in communal riots in Gujarat?" tweeted the Assam chief minister.
Later, Gogoi, a senior Congressman and Sonia Gandhi loyalist, also held a press conference and said this is the first time that a national political party was seeking the mandate on the basis of one person, Narendra Modi.
"Political parties normally fight polls over several issues. We are also going to fight next year's polls. However, we are going to contest the polls over several issues -- development schemes, implementation of schemes and other issues. But for the first time in my long political career, I see the BJP going to contest polls under one person," Gogoi said, while talking to newsmen.
