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CM slams corporation

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Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said that BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi have received support from the corporate houses.             Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Friday, Gogoi said that he has not seen corporate houses rolling out red carpet for a political party.               He further called Modi god of destruction and not god of construction.     He said that he has noticed striking similarity between Modi magic and Ajmal's politics of water bottle.

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