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Varun Gandhi `displeased' with Modi's remarks

SURAT, APRIL 3. Varun Gandhi, son of the former Union Minister, Maneka Gandhi, today expressed ``displeasure'' over the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi's ``derogatory'' remarks against his aunt and Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and her son, Rahul, and said leaders must refrain from resorting to any ``personal'' attack.

Mr. Gandhi, who is campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party in south Gujarat, told mediapersons at Daman, without naming Mr. Modi, that the coming elections were not a fight between any two political leaders, but being held in the ``nation's welfare.''

He, however, hastened to add that it was not because of his ``relationship'' with Ms. Sonia Gandhi's family that he was condemning Mr. Modi's remarks, but only because the polls were a matter of the nation's interest and not a duel between leaders.

Quoting a ``survey'' carried out in Nadiad town, Mr. Modi had said during the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani's `Bharat Uday Yatra' that Ms. Sonia Gandhi and her son were found ``unfit'' for even job of a clerk and a driver.

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