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Stay in India, Sonia may, but no ruling business!

We have heard it before: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is an outsider. Un-Indian, total pardeshi.

But let's hear it once more, this time not from a politician, but from Dadasaheb Phalke winner Sivaji Ganesan who 'respects her only as Rajiv Gandhi's wife'. He said he did not like the idea of the Congress using her name to further its political ambition.

"She is an outsider... My daughter-in-law, too, is a foreigner," the veteran actor said, "She can stay with us and eat with us -- but that's all..."