Indian Politi-Quote: Jyoti Basu on Sonia Gandhi

What qualifies someone as PM according to Jyoti Basu, the senior CPI-M leader?

Read his comments in 2004:
Basu told reporters he had no problem with Sonia becoming prime minister.

“She is an Indian citizen,” he said. “She is married to an Indian. She is leader of a major political party. It was for Congress to put forward who will be their leader.”

...however, four years down the line, when the same person comments on his own state, what does he have to say now? read yesterday's statement:

CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu today snubbed Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her criticism of the law and order situation in West Bengal and reference to the suffering of people at Nandigram, saying she knew nothing about the state.

"I read in newspapers that she came to the state to campaign for panchayat elections. She knows nothing about West Bengal. There is no need to give any importance to her utterances," Basu told reporters.