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Congress Slams Gadkari for Modi-Gandhi Remarks

  •   Sun, Jan 31 2010 02:00:29 PM

New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Congress Sunday reacted strongly to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari's comparison of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with Mahatma Gandhi, saying it was a reflection of "collective senility" that has gripped the saffron party.

"It is evidence of the collective senility that has gripped the BJP," Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told IANS.

Tewari said "by comparing (Slobodan) Milosevic of Gujarat to the great Mahatma, his assassins have added insult to the injury."

Milosevic, a former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, was charged with crimes against humanity.

Gadkari had Saturday compared Modi's policies of alleviating poverty with the ideology of Gandhi and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, a BJP ideologue.

Speaking at Porbandar, which is Gandhi's birthplace, the BJP president said the two leaders thought that alleviating poverty should be the end of all politics and Modi was working to achieve the same goal.

However, speaking in Bangalore Sunday, Gadkari denied making any comparison between Gandhi and Modi.

Gadkari said his speech was on record and he "did not compare" the Gujarat chief minister with Gandhi.

  

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  • Ravindranath Shetty, Mangalore/Dubai

    Sun, Jan 31 2010

    A politician can (and are) interpret to suit his agenda. What Mr. Gadkeri said is CM Modi is working to alleviate poverty which is in consistent with Mahatma Gandhi's ideology.

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  • ISMAIL K PERINJE, PERINJE/YANBU-KSA

    Sun, Jan 31 2010

    The remark and comparision of Mr Modi to the Great Mahatma Ghandi is a insult to the Indians.Mr Gadkeri only making WHOOP-DE-DOO for his own benefit.

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