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Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday said that he stands by his ‘neech aadmi’ jibe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and termed his December 2017 remark about the Prime Minister as ‘prophetic’. In the run-up to 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls, Aiyar had referred to Modi as a ‘neech-aadmi’, a remark that cost his party heavily in the state. The Congress leader’s comments were met with sharp criticism by the BJP.