What Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has succeeded in doing is to strip our armed forces of the strength that was created by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government along with the support of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

I appeal to all my colleagues in Parliament not to think of the next elections and think how it would impinge on their result for them. What the prime minister has done is to keep the entire country and the armed forces to believe that he has done a good job to see that the country is safe with his government.

No, Mr Prime Minister, you have taken the country to the precipice where the nation’s security is concerned. The best thing for you is to put in your papers. All that you have succeeded in doing in this matter is to undo what the NDA government did.