Kolkata, Apr 24 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said he was surprised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about the state government's "overall failure".
"I am surprised at what the Prime Minister said yesterday. I don't know when he discovered that the state government was not working," Bhattacharjee said at a 'Meet- the-Press' programme here and observed that the government's performance would be only judged by the people.
The Prime Minister, he said, had never complained to him about his government's alleged non-performance during his meetings in Delhi.
Rather, Singh was always eager to know about the progress in land distribution, new industries in the state and the proposed investment in the state by Japan, he said.
"The Prime Minister had come to the state to campaign for the Assembly elections. He had to follow his party's line," Bhattacharjee said.