NEW DELHI: After taunting the Congress with his "budhiya" (aged woman) comments, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has termed the 125-year-old national party a "gudiya" (doll), eliciting sharp reaction from the opposite camp.Addressing a poll rally in Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district, Modi said: "Ab mein Congress ko budhiya nahin, gudiya kahoonga. Aisa karne se kya woh jawan ho jayegi (Now I will refer to the Congress not as an aged woman, but a doll. Will it make the party younger?)"Reacting to Modi's political barbs, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told media persons that Modi had "lost his balance" and was "causing humiliation to himself" every time he insulted the Congress.Referring to Modi's "budhiya" comment, Singhvi said that besides all the elderly people and women in the country, "he (Modi) should also apologise to L.K. Advani, who did not fall in the youth category." Advani, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is 81 years old.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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