Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his 'Aurangzeb' jibe and sought to remind him that unlike in the Mughal rule, the president election process in the Congress Party was totally 'democratic'. During the Mughal rule, it was understood that after Jehangir, Shahjahan will be the leader, but here anyone is free to contest against Rahul Gandhi. Earlier, Maharashtra Shehzad Poonawalla, who had called out the party's president election 'rigged', called the entire procedure to be a coronation. "Congress president Smt Sonia Gandhi has served the Congress party and, through the Congress party, the country for the last 19 years. Rahul Gandhi will carry on the great traditions of the Congress party," he said.

Source: dna December 04, 2017 11:29 UTC