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Rashtriya Janata Dal president Laloo Prasad Yadav on Thursday criticised Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for calling Congress president Sonia Gandhi a 'foreigner'.
Yadav, a member of the Rajya Sabha, said Gandhi was a citizen of India, and calling her a foreigner was "an insult to being an Indian".
He said Jayalalithaa's statement was unwarranted since the Supreme Court had already made it clear that Gandhi was a citizen of India and enjoyed the same rights as any other citizen.
He said the Bharatiya Janata Party was using Jayalalithaa to attack Gandhi on an old issue at a time when the Congress was emerging as an alternative to the ruling National Democratic Alliance at the Centre.
Yadav alleged that Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani had a role to play in this matter since Advani feared Gandhi's rise before the next Lok Sabha election.
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