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Modi making bizarre accusation, spreading blatant lie: Ramesh

New Delhi: A day after Narendra Modi took him on in his home district of Chikmagalur, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today wrote to the BJP leader accusing him of spreading “blatant lie” about his four-year-old

I said this in New Delhi some four years ago and I continue to hold this view.”
In his letter, the Congress leader recalled the sentiments shared by him and Modi on the issue of sanitation in the country.

“I have also said that India has the largest number (and proportion) of people practicing open defecation. I stand by that statement also.

“I have also said that India's salvation lies in sanitation and not just in spirituality, a view that I continue to hold and which you have also endorsed,” Ramesh said.