New Delhi, November 24
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today slammed the Opposition for targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, terming it as "shameful" and asserting that he was "100 per cent above board" in the 2G spectrum issue. Coming out in defence of the Prime Minister, she reminded the BJP that it had to pay a price of trying to "destroy the image" of Singh during the last Lok Sabha elections and said it should draw a "lesson" from that.

Hitting back at the BJP for seeking to corner the government over the 2G spectrum scam, a combative Gandhi attacked the Opposition party for retaining B S Yeddyurappa as Karnataka CM and compared this decision with the UPA action in making A Raja, Natwar Singh, Shashi Tharoor and Ashok Chavan resign from their posts in the wake of corruption charges.

"It is shameful that a person of integrity like the Prime Minister should be targeted in this manner," she told reporters here when asked to comment on the Opposition attack on Singh in the 2G spectrum allocation issue. — PTI