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Headlines    Vol. 2 Issue No. 23      March 7 - 21,  2004

Congress questions Advani’s “foreign origin’’

Come elections and political parties are never short of slogans. BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan even said that Indians of foreign parentage cannot also occupy the post of the Prime Minister. In response, Rajya Sabha Congress MP from Assam D. N. Sharma has said the BJP’s slogan would not influence the voters across country in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Mr Sharma, who is the AICC observer to Arunachal Pradesh for the coming Lok Sabha election, said by capturing power in three states in November, the BJP-led NDA government dissolved Parliament eight months prior to the schedule on ‘’emotional attitude’’.  “If the BJP raises the question of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin, they could not escape from the fact that Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani’s foreign origin.

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