India Decides @ 9

Dr Manmohan Singh, unusually aggressive, made a focused attack on the BJP in Parliament today, beginning with economics and data as he is wont to do, and then shifting gears midway to politics.The Prime Minister referred to the BJP's Delhi meet last weekend where leaders like Narendra Modi had attacked him, saying that they had hurled the "choicest abuses" against the Congress leadership, but that he would not use "the language that the BJP uses to attack us", defending his government's economic policies and asserting that the UPA's performance in the last decade would compel people to vote them back.