Bareilly: Varun Gandhi praised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh and said he has as much potential as former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to unite the country.
"His (Vajpayee's) thoughts were so great that every child in the country remembers his rule. I can say with full confidence that if there is any individual in the country who has that ability to bring together people of different religions and castes, then it is our honourable Rajnath Singh," he said speaking at a public meeting in the presence of the BJP chief.
"There are no two views on it... there is an reflection of Atalji in Rajnath Singhji," Varun Gandhi said while addressing a party rally' in Devsara Mandi in the Aonla Lok Sabha constituency represented by his mother Maneka Gandhi
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