Healthy criticism

On Monday, many Delhiites woke up to find an interesting advertisement inserted in their newspapers. Titled "Aaya Aaya, Feku Aaya", the advertisement compared facts related to the development of Gujarat under its chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi with the facilities available in New Delhi. There was no name or address printed on the advertisement but it was assumed to be a Congress-sponsored communication. In one sequence in the advertisement, a man confronting Modi proudly proclaims that a lot of patients from abroad come to the national capital to avail of its state-of-the-art medical facilities. Not a party to let an opportunity go waste, the Aam Aadmi Party has zeroed in on the campaign to launch its own counter-attack. On the same day, one of its leaders asked an informal gathering of journalists, "If this is true, why does the Congress president herself go abroad for the treatment?"'