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'Desperate' Modi raising caste issue not Priyanka: Congress

New Delhi: Congress today hit out at Narendra Modi after he accused Priyanka Gandhi of “insulting” him with the “neech rajniti” remark as he belonged to a backward caste, saying she never made any such

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: May 06, 2014 20:39 IST
“It is really insulting and I think she should have really kept out of it, and, considering the candidate in Amethi (Rahul Gandhi) is not speaking,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said countering the Congress attack.  

Congress' Meem Afzal said Modi was making a “desperate” attempt to be a member of the backward class.  “It was not Priyankaji's intention what Modi is saying,” he said.

Afzal added that yoga guru Ramdev also attempted to indulge in such kind of statements and now his politics has been “finished”.

Sitharaman said the word ‘neech' has a “very very severe connotation” in a caste-ridden Indian life and when public figures use such words they should use them with responsibility.

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