Mani Shankar Iyer.
Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said he never called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “chaiwala”. He has written a new book about the 2014 controversy. This is mentioned in Mavericks in Politics published by Juggernaut. Diplomat-turned-politician Aiyar said of his decades-long relationship with the Gandhi family that they made and broke his political career.
The people of India will never accept this, he wrote. I said, never! Never, never, I joked that if Modi still wants to serve tea after losing the election, we can make arrangements for him here.
Iyer pointed out that the person who called himself “Chai Wala” was Modi himself in order to “underline the somewhat dubious assertion that he came from humble beginnings”.
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He said: “Since then – since then – people have started spreading this narrative as if I said Modi cannot become Prime Minister because he is a ‘chaiwala’. I never called Modi as a “chaiwala” and never promoted him as a “chaiwala” because I believed he would never become the Prime Minister. As the alleged rhetoric intensified, the Congress party and leadership came to believe that Aiyar had “created obstacles”.
Aiyar wrote: “The media and Modi have made public what I call (but completely untrue) comments that Modi is unfit to be Prime Minister because (as he claims) he started life as a ‘chaiwala’. This Nothing more than an empty electoral stunt. “It gives Congress insiders an opportunity to divert attention from the real reasons for the party’s electoral defeat and place the blame on this, which is ironic if it is. Comments on jokes. “
No one bothered to ask me
He further said: “No one bothered to ask me or watch the video. No one even took the time to ask themselves whether I could use caste discrimination given my personal background and my long record of diplomatic and political service. No one looked at Modi’s long A record of unrestrained distortion of speech.
