Tea vendors are holding heads high: Modi

By IANS,

New Delhi : Tea vendors are holding their heads high and are being welcomed everywhere, BJP star Narendra Modi – who sold tea when he was young – said Sunday.

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“The ‘chai wala’ is being welcomed across the country. Tea vendors are holding their heads high,” Modi told a BJP leadership meeting here, triggering cheering and clapping at the Ramlila Maidan.

Modi’s comments followed Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s barb that Modi was free to sell tea at a Congress session Friday.

Modi said the Congress had a “feudalistic mindset” and they were finding it difficult to adjust with someone who sold tea, who was from a “backward caste” and whose mother once washed utensils in other homes.