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‘Modi can sell tea’
‘Modi can sell tea’. In remarks that are likely to stoke a controversy, Congress leader Manishankar Aiyar on Friday mocked Narendra Modi's prime ministerial ambitions and said a place will be identified for the Gujarat chief minister to distribute tea here.
Mani mocks BJP PM face at the meet
New Delhi: In remarks that are likely to stoke a controversy, Congress leader Manishankar Aiyar on Friday mocked Narendra Modi's prime ministerial ambitions and said a place will be identified for the Gujarat chief minister to distribute tea here. "I promise you in 21st century Narendra Modi will never become the Prime Minister of the country. ...But if he wants to distribute tea here, we will find a place for him," Aiyar said at the venue of the AICC meeting.
The Gujarat chief minister has said that he was born in a poor family, and have seen and lived in poverty. "I have sold tea at the railway station and in running trains ...those selling tea in trains know more about railways than the minister," Modi had said at a rally in Patna. When he was six years old, Modi helped his father sell tea to passengers whenever an odd train came into the small Vadnagar station in Gujarat, according to a book titled "The anatomy of Narendra Modi - the man and his politics" authored by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
BJP leaders said that Aiyar’s comment shows Congress's frustration. "Congress is frustrated, that is why such obnoxious remarks are being made," the party said. Arun Jaitley tweeted, "The strength of Indian democracy will be proved when a former tea vendor defeats a Dynasty representative. Let this be the battle of 2014." "The people of this country will answer Mani Shankar Aiyar .. "The people of this country will answer Mani Shankar Aiyar. The countdown of the Congress party has begun," Rajiv Pratap Rudy said. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar described Aiyar as an "icon of cheap thinking".
