INC COMMUNIQUE Announcement of the revocation of suspension of Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar from the Primary Membership… https://t.co/78nq4H7Ega — INC Sandesh (@INCSandesh) 1534608704000

NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday revoked the suspension of senior leader Mani Shankar Aiyar from the primary membership of the party.The former Union minister was suspended from the primary membership of the Congress after he had made a remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Gujarat Assembly elections in December last year.In the press statement, the INC said that the Congress president approved the recommendation of the Central Disciplinary Committee of AICC for revoking the suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar from the primary membership with immediate effect.The Congress leader had stoked a controversy last year by describing PM Modi as a "neech aadmi".Aiyar’s words had not only drawn a ferocious attack from Modi in Surat but riled his own party functionaries also. “He (Modi) is neech kism ka aadmi who has no sabhyata (civility),” Aiyar had said after Modi had accused the Congress of using Dalit icon B R Ambedkar merely to get votes and trying to erase his contribution in building India.Modi had hit back at Aiyar and said the Congress functionaries had lost their mental balance. “Mani Shankar Aiyar has called me neech and from nichli jaati (lower caste). Is this not an insult to Gujarat? Is it not an insult to India’s great values? But people of Gujarat will take revenge on December 18 and teach you the precise meaning of neech,” Modi had said.Though the senior Congress leader held his ground, he, however, had blamed the derogatory remark on his poor Hindi.