Manmohan says PM should apologise for false statements on Pak-poll link

Arun Jaitley terms dinner meeting 'political misadventure'

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he was “deeply pained and anguished by the falsehood and canards being spread to score political points in a lost cause by none less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” Singh said he sincerely hoped that the PM would “apologise to the nation for his ill thought transgression to restore the dignity of the office he occupies.”

The former PM’s statement came in response to allegations by the PM that Pakistan was trying to influence the Assembly polls in Gujarat. On Sunday, the PM alleged in his speech at a public rally in