Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday said that Congress leader Kamal Nath had called him a “dog”, reported PTI. T...
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday said that Congress leader Kamal Nath had called him a “dog”, reported PTI. The allegation came a day after the Election Commission removed Nath as star campaigner for the state’s bye-elections for repeated poll code violations.
“Kamal Nath came here and called me a dog,” Scindia said during a rally at Sadora near Bhopal. “Yes, Kamal Nath, I am a dog and the public is my owner. Yes, I am a dog because the dog protects his owner.”
The Congress dismissed Scindia’s claim, with party spokesperson Narendra Saluja saying that Nath had “never used this word for anybody in his speeches”.
#WATCH: Kamal Nath ji calls me a dog, yes I am a dog because I am a servant of the people... because a dog protects its owner and if someone brings corrupt and ill-intended policies then this dog will attack that person: BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia #MadhyaPradesh pic.twitter.com/UyY4xQHdZl
— ANI (@ANI) October 31, 2020
Hours after Scindia’s video clip went viral, Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam’s speech in another rally was widely shared. “When Kamal Nath ji was trying to act against a mafia don here, someone protected him like a faithful dog,” he said, in an indirect reference Scindia.
The Election Commission also issued...
