Mumbai, May 6 -- Heaping praise on Rahul Gandhi for accepting the responsibility for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray's close aide Sanjay Raut said on Monday that the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha "is a man with a clean heart and the country is fortunate to have such a leader".

Talking to media persons here, Raut said: "Gandhi is a politician with a clean heart. We have seen that he accepts his mistake. We are fortunate that such a leader is there in our country. In politics, it is a big thing to accept mistake".

Raut was commenting on the manner in which Rahul - speaking at an interaction with students at Watson Institute for International Studies in the United States-- had acknowledged the "mi...