Prime Minister’s outlook towards GM foods and Bt brinjal may still be soft but Jairam Ramesh has made a 360 degree turn from his earlier statement. At the base of this is that rebuke from Sonia Gandhi in which she had expressed the apprehension that if the UPA Government
would come out openly in support of Bt brinjal then it would have to bear the consequence in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Bihar, U.P. and Gujarat. So Jairam who was openly supporting Bt brinjal has now turned around.