Modi should not have addressed Patna rally after serial blasts, says Salman Khurshid

He said there was no word about the people who died or what had happened because it was not in his script.

Khurshid defended Shinde for attending a music release of a film just hours after the blast. "Shinde has a life beyond Patna....And the awful thing that happened."

"The law and order was the responsibility of the state government and if the state government was to ask Shinde or the Home Ministry to take over something, he would be there on the phone," he said.