NEW DELHI: A provincial chief from India's main opposition Congress party has told an election rally that India is suffering nature's curse because both the president and prime minister are bachelors, a report said yesterday.
The Times of India newspaper quoted Digvijay Singh, chief minister of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, as saying that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Abdul Kalam had offended the Hindu rain God Varuna by remaining bachelors.
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