Quraishi's Manmohan Singh claim sparks row
New Delhi, July 14 -- A claim by former chief election commissioner SY Quraishi that then prime minister Manmohan Singh told him, "If that is what you think, I will commit suicide," after being confronted over Congress leaders' attacks on the Election Commission of India (ECI) has become the most politically explosive revelation in Quraishi's forthcoming book, "India and I: A Hundred Memories, Not a Memoir".
The anecdote, contained in a chapter titled "The Day the Prime Minister Said the Unthinkable", revisits the bitter confrontation between ECI and the Congress during the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections after the poll panel censured then Union law minister Salman Khurshid for promising enhanced reservation for Muslims during the cam...
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