Targeting 87-year-old VS Achuthanandan, Rahul Gandhi (40), projected as the youth face of the Congress, said at a campaign meeting that if the Left Democratic Front was re-elected, Kerala would have a 93-year-old Chief Minister in five years' time.
Mamata Banerjee has called her political rival, the CPM, a party in a coma; the Left retaliated by saying while coma patients can be revived, there's little help for those who're brain dead.
The woman who hopes to replace M Karunanidhi as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu said, "The main issue in these elections is the all-pervasive corruption indulged in by Mr Karunanidhi, his family members, his party members, his ministers and the entire DMK."
The BJP accused the Congress of hypocrisy for making an issue of Achuthanandan's age. After all, it said, Sonia Gandhi has campaigned with M Karunanidhi who is 86 years old.