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<b>BJP digs up Sonia roots in fight for President</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, July 7: The BJP today resurrected Sonia Gandhi’s “foreign origin” to try and counter the <b>Congress’s charge that Bhairon Singh Shekhawat had served British police during the colonial rule and quit only when they left India</b>.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi had said: “When people left behind everything to join the freedom struggle, responding to Mahatma Gandhi’s call, Shekhawat thought it fit to be part of the repressive colonial police.”

Shekhawat’s election minder, Sushma Swaraj, today responded:<b> “It doesn’t lie in the Congress’s mouth to speak of the freedom movement after accepting a foreigner as the party president.”</b> <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Asked why she persisted in calling Sonia a “foreigner”, despite the Congress president winning successive Lok Sabha elections and leading her party to victory several times, Sushma told reporters: “I have always said she’s a foreigner. After July 19 (when the new President will be elected), I am open to a debate on this issue.”
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