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Modi takes generation leap
From budhia to gudiya Congress

Shravasti/Faizabad (UP), April 12
After kicking up a row over his description of the Congress as an old woman, BJP’s star campaigner and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said he would now call the party “gudiya Congress” instead of a “budhia”.

“If my friends did not like my comments about the age of the Congress or my calling it a ‘budhia’ Congress, then I will not call it an old party. But, will this make the Congress younger?” he told an election rally at Shravasti in Bahraich district.

“From today, I will call the Congress a gudiya Congress (doll Congress),” the BJP stalwart said.

“The statements of the Congress about my description of the party as a 125-year-old woman shows they have accepted that their party is of a particular family,” he said.

“If they have to talk of 125 years, then they have to take names of Purshottam Das Tondon, Sarder Patel and Subhas Chandra. But, if they do this, then this will lessen the importance of the family ruling the party,” Modi said. — PTI