04-09-2004, 10:11 PM
<b>Modi dares Sonia to sing Vande Mataram</b>
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, APRIL 09, 2004 12:52:34 AM ]
BHUJ: Within days of creating controversy by calling Rahul Gandhi a 'Jersey cow,' Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi fired another salvo at a meeting in Rapar on Thursday, challenging Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to sing the Vande Mataram without any help at the village chowk.
Lashing out at Sonia, Modi picked on the fact that she still possessed a house in Italy and <b>had not applied for an Indian citizenship till 20 years after her marriage </b>to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It was Modi's first election rally in Kutch.
"<b>She doesn't even know the difference between Taj Mahal and Panchmahal</b>," he said, adding: "I wonder why the Congress is recalling the white-skinned and, this time, from Italy." The CM claimed that no Congress candidate from Gujarat would make it to Parliament this time, adding that the five MPs in the last LS had been papis.
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BHUJ: Within days of creating controversy by calling Rahul Gandhi a 'Jersey cow,' Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi fired another salvo at a meeting in Rapar on Thursday, challenging Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to sing the Vande Mataram without any help at the village chowk.
Lashing out at Sonia, Modi picked on the fact that she still possessed a house in Italy and <b>had not applied for an Indian citizenship till 20 years after her marriage </b>to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It was Modi's first election rally in Kutch.
"<b>She doesn't even know the difference between Taj Mahal and Panchmahal</b>," he said, adding: "I wonder why the Congress is recalling the white-skinned and, this time, from Italy." The CM claimed that no Congress candidate from Gujarat would make it to Parliament this time, adding that the five MPs in the last LS had been papis.