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Their parents cannot afford the expensive outfits Rubina Ali Quereshi and Azharhuddin Mohammed Ismail Shaikh strutted on the ramp for designers Ashima-Leena Singh at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. The farmhouse they were whisked away to may as well have been on another planet. And but for the Oscar success of Slumdog Millionnaire their photo op with Congress president Sonia Gandhi would never have happened and they would have been just two of the millions of kids growing up in slums.

Yet, Delhi clearly couldn’t get enough of the ‘cute’ slumdog kids with the buzz in political circles that they could even be roped in for the Congress campaign.

Meanwhile, what is it that the kids themselves want? According to reports, they’ve asked Sonia Gandhi for better housing.

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