Narendra Modi's extraordinary roadshow in Varanasi on Thursday, billed as the biggest of this election, has ignited more political sparring over iconic leaders from India's past.
The Congress today tried to downplay a comment by a party leader Ajay Maken, who alleged yesterday that Mr Modi's roadshow and the statues he garlanded on the way showed his "complete commitment towards a religion."
The statement has reportedly left his party squirming as Mr Maken had inadvertently included the Congress' own icons in that descriptor. During his roadshow, Mr Modi had stopped to garland the statues of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India's first home minister, and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, four-time president of the Congress before independence, apart from Swami Vivekananda.
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