Plot to kill PM comes up when his popularity declines: Cong
After Pune Police claimed that members of banned CPI(Maoists) had plotted a "Rajiv Gandhi-type incident" to kill PM Narendra Modi, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Friday said, "It has been PM Modi's old tactic... whenever his popularity declines, news of an assassination plot is planted." "So it should be probed how much truth is in it this time," he added.