New Delhi, April 2 – BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday pulled up Union Minister Giriraj Singh for his racist comments on Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Giriraj Singh was forced to express his regrets after a call from BJP president Amit Shah who made it clear to him that “such language” was not acceptable.
Party sources said Shah called Singh over telephone and made it clear in no uncertain terms that it was unbecoming of a minister to use such a language. However, a party leader said Congress leaders have been using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and none of them, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, have apologised ever.
He said the BJP respects everyone and does not accept foul language against others. The BJP MP from Bihar on Tuesday night told reporters in Patna, “Had (former PM) Rajiv Gandhi married a Nigerian woman and if she was not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have then accepted her leadership?”
Giriraj also mocked Rahul Gandhi:
The Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, who had courted controversies in the past with remarks during Lok Sabha elections like people opposed to Narendra Modi can go to Pakistan, also mocked Rahul Gandhi’s absence from the political scene and likened it to the missing Malaysian airliner.
“Imagine a situation. If Congress was in power instead of us and had Rahul been the Prime Minister, and if for some reason, the PM had disappeared for more than 47 days. Absence of the Congress vice-president is similar to that of the missing Malaysian airliner that still has not been located.
The same way the Congress leader was not present in the Budget session. No one in Congress is ready to speak. This is unfortunate for the Congress and a joke for the country,” he said.
-INDIA TODAY
