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One such reaction came from senior journalist and commentator Swapan Dasgupta. Speaking on NDTV&#8217;s show The Buck Stops Here, he said the remarks were in bad taste. Mani Shankar Aiyar, however, justifies his comment.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar&#8217;s remark that Narendra Modi can never be Prime Minister but was welcome to sell tea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-videos","bn-entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Row over &#039;tea vendor&#039; remark: Mani Shankar thinks this is impish humour, says Swapan Dasgupta - IndiaVision Social and Lifestyle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiavision.com\/social-lifestyle\/news-videos\/row-over-tea-vendor-remark-mani-shankar-thinks-this-is-impish-humour-says-swapan-dasgupta\/8219\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"manishchowhan\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.indiavision.com\\\/social-lifestyle\\\/news-videos\\\/row-over-tea-vendor-remark-mani-shankar-thinks-this-is-impish-humour-says-swapan-dasgupta\\\/8219\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.indiavision.com\\\/social-lifestyle\\\/news-videos\\\/row-over-tea-vendor-remark-mani-shankar-thinks-this-is-impish-humour-says-swapan-dasgupta\\\/8219\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"manishchowhan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.indiavision.com\\\/social-lifestyle\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6a60dc73ad599508526046cc6b671482\"},\"headline\":\"Row over &#8216;tea vendor&#8217; 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