Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Sunday stirred a controversy by referring to a woman leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party as an...
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Sunday stirred a controversy by referring to a woman leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party as an “item”. The ruling BJP has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission while the Congress defended Nath by saying that he did not name the saffron party leader.
“Ye unke jaise nahi hai… kya hai uska naam? [He is not like her, what is her name?],” Nath asked the crowd while campaigning for party candidate Suresh Raje in Dabra for the upcoming Assembly bye-polls. The crowd responded with BJP candidate Imarti Devi’s name. “You know her better than I do, you people should have warned me beforehand… ye kya item hai… kya item hai,” said Nath.
The Dabra Assembly seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste community. Bye-polls for 28 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh will be held on November 3. The results will be declared on November 10.
Imarti Devi was one of the 22 MLAs who resigned in March, toppling the Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh. She eventually joined the BJP and was given the Cabinet minister for Women and Child Development.
The BJP called Nath’s remark an insult to women as well as the SC community....
