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Sonia deploys veterans to attack PM Modi for targeting Manmohan Singh

Congress takes exception to raincoat dig, says attack is personal and unbecoming of a Prime Minister

Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Photo: PTI
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Photo: PTI

Amit Agnihotri New Delhi
Sonia Gandhi deployed Congress veterans P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma and Kapil Sibal to launch a counter attack on PM Modi soon after he took a dig at former prime minister Manmohan Singh.

In 2004 she had named Manmohan as PM of the UPA and even backed him for a second term in 2009.

Modi's remark that the former PM had a clean image despite being in key government positions for five decades and knew the art of bathing with a raincoat on in the bathroom, an indirect reference to the various scams that surfaced during the previous UPA regime, angered the Congress