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| Congress ad invokes Vajpayee |
| Congress ad invokes Vajpayee to target Narendra Modi
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| INDIA
, 11-April-2014
4:32:9 AM |
| Smack in the middle of the national election that many believe it can't win, the Congress has taken to a new line of offensive to target Narendra Modi, using his own party leader Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Mr Vajpayee's image was prominent on the Congress' official website today, with a message that invoked the former prime minister's words criticising the 2002 riots in Mr Modi's Gujarat.
"Modi did not follow Rajdharma (A ruler's duty)", said the Congress' ad, calling it the fundamental cause of Mr Vajpayee's pain.
"Just think! Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vapayee did not think this man deserved to be chief minister, can you put the country's future in his hands?" says the ad.
The BJP's Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "the Congress has become intellectually bankrupt."
Mr Vajpayee, 89, considered the BJP's tallest leader, retired from active politics in 2006. He was Prime Minister from 1998 to 2004.
When the riots tore through Gujarat in February, 2002, Mr Vajpayee had reportedly told Mr Modi, the Chief Minister, that "Rajdharma should be followed." (read: Modi denies Vajpayee rapped him over Rajdharma)
Mr Modi's critics say he didn't do enough to check the violence that left nearly 1,000 dead, mostly Muslims. A Supreme Court monitored inquiry said it found no evidence of Mr Modi's role in the riots, an assessment that was upheld by a trial court last year
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