Narendra Modi ?pained? at PM not voting

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Thursday the target of attack by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for failing to vote in the recently concluded Assam Assembly elections.

Modi took a dig at the PM for failing to exercise his right to vote, the very ?essence of democracy?.

?Today, when we are celebrating the birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, I am pained to learn that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not vote in the assembly elections in Assam,? Modi said at a function here.

Singh and his wife Gurcharan Kaur are voters in Dispur constituency of Assam. The PM represents the north-eastern in the Rajya Sabha.

The polling for Dispur constituency was held on April 11.

Modi, pointing that Dr Ambedkar gave India its Constitution, said he was ?pained? at the PM ignoring this vital right.