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Get your facts right: Cong workers send Modi history text books

Youth Congress workers on Wednesday sent a package containing history textbooks to BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as a "Diwali gift", claiming it was meant to help him "improve his knowledge" of the subject.

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FP Archives|Nov 06, 2013, 18:04:08 IST

Mumbai: Youth Congress workers on Wednesday sent a package containing history textbooks to BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as a "Diwali gift", claiming it was meant to help him "improve his knowledge" of the subject.[caption id="attachment_1214547" align="alignleft" width="380"]AFP BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi. AFP[/caption]"At a recent rally, Modi wrongly said in his speech that Taxila was a part of Bihar, when it was in fact located in North West Pakistan," Mumbai Pradesh Youth Congress president Ganesh Kumar Yadav told reporters during a function held at Azad Maidan in South Mumbai.Modi also referred to Chandragupta as a great king of the Gupta dynasty instead of the Maurya dynasty, he added."Today, we have sent him history textbooks from 5th to 8th standard SSC and 9th to 10th standard ICSE as a Diwali gift to help him improve his knowledge of history," Yadav said.PTI

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First Published:Nov 06, 2013, 18:00:46 IST
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