Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi got support from unexpected quarters on Tuesday, when Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said she did not agree with Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan's remark terming Mr. Gandhi an “Amul baby.”
“I cannot appreciate this comment as I became a Minister when I was just 25,” she said here.
Ms. Swaraj, who was born in 1952, became the Minister for Labour and Employment in 1977 in the Devi Lal-led Janata Party government in Haryana.
However, she took a dig at Mr. Gandhi for his comment that at 87, Mr. Achuthanandan was too old to be Chief Minister. “Rahul Gandhi forgot that the Congress has an alliance with the DMK, whose leader M. Karunanidhi is of the same age as Mr. Achuthanandan. There was a complete lack of application of mind [on Mr. Gandhi's part] here,” she said.
