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Aiyar's derogatory remarks against PM puts Congress on the defensive

Manmohan rap on Gujarat model overshadowed by Aiyar's remark

Mani Shankar Aiyar
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Archis Mohan Ahmedabad
On the last day of campaigning for the first phase of Gujarat assembly elections, the Congress on Thursday spent its firepower to question the ‘Gujarat model of development’, but a senior leader’s derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi forced it onto the defensive.

In Rajkot, former prime minister Manmohan Singh told a press conference in the morning, and later a group of industrialists, how Gujarat had regressed during the BJP’s 22 years in power. Quoting former US president Abraham Lincoln, Singh said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the