Ageing battles

The poll battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party's Kirron Kher and the Aam Aadmi Party's Gul Panag for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat has reached the social networking space in a very Page 3-type of catfight over the oh-so-sensitive issue of age. In one of her tweets, Panag, 35, said, "Doubt if I'll have the energy to run around like this and serve my people, when I'm 60 .I guess that's why there's normally a retirement age." Responding to this, Kher, who is 59, said her father was 101 and still going strong. "For me life starts at 60," she said and then pointedly added, "There are 25-year-olds who are bimbos, 60-year-olds who are brilliant."