NEW DELHI:
The row over Sam Pitroda’s ‘inheritance tax’ remark amid election season has not even settled yet but the Indian Overseas Congress head stirred new trouble for Congress with his racist remark, giving the BJP an opportunity to lambast the grand old party.
Following Pitroda’s statement, Chief Ministers from BJP-ruled states in Northeast — Assam and Manipur — attacked Pitroda and demanded an apology from the Congress.
Manipur CM N Biren Singh said that Congress has a hidden agenda to divide India on religious grounds and blamed the opposition party for the situation in the state, where over 100 people were killed and thousands left homeless in the violence since May last year.
SAM PITRODA SPARKS CONTROVERSY AGAIN
Highlighting how India has developed itself as a shining example of democracy in the world, Pitroda said that the people of the country have “survived 75 years in a very happy environment where people are living together”.
“We could hold together a country as diverse as India — where people on the East look like Chinese, people on the West look like Arabs, people on the North look like maybe White and people in South India look like Africans. It doesn’t matter. We are all brothers and sisters,” said Pitroda, during an interview with The Statesman.
BJP ATTACKS CONGRESS FOR ‘DIVISIVE MINDSET’
Terming Pitroda ‘Shakuni of the Congress party’, BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan Sam attacked the grand old party and said that the racist remark of Indian Overseas Congress chief has exposed the party’s “dangerous and divisive mindset”.
