BHOPAL: Reacting sharply to Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed's statement on LK Advani, Madhya Pradesh minister for industries and commerce Kailash Vijayavargiya on Tuesday sent a copy of the former deputy Prime Minister's biography 'My Country My Life' to AICC president Sonia Gandhi.
The book went with a letter to the Congress president asking her to pass it down to senior Congress leaders who should read it to know and understand the magnanimous personality of Advani and in future not make such objectionable comments about him.
Vijayavargiya's letter came one day after the BJP in New Delhi officially condemned Shakeel Ahmed's statement that BJP veteran leader L K Advani should have stayed back in Pakistan to serve his community (Hindus) there.
Ahmed had also argued that had Advani stayed back in Pakistan, he would not have got any benefits in exchange for his service like getting elected as a MLA, MP or be his party's prime ministerial candidate.
"Shakeel Ahmad's comment is also an insult to you and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh," Kailash Vijayavargiya letter to Sonia Gandhi said. "Because you were born in Italy and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in what is Pakistan today. Does his comment apply to you and the Prime Minister also?" the MP minister asked.
For your information, during the time of partition, LK Advani was an RSS "pracharak" and had come from Karachi to Kota where he worked for the organisation for a long time. "He never aspired for any position, his only aim in life was service to the nation," the strong-worded letter said.
Vijayavargiya further wrote that he sending a copy of 'My Life My Country' so that the Congress president should also read and then pass it on to Congress leaders including AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi and party spokesman Shakeel Ahmad to know more about a man who is not only a former Prime Minister but the seniormost leader in the BJP oppsition.
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