Congress demands BJP minister’s apology for remarks on Priyanka

Taking to societal media hours aft the Election Commission connected Tuesday announced the by-election dates for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, from wherever she volition beryllium contesting, the BJP curate wrote: “Finally, the miss could not combat and ran distant to the spot wherever she does not person to combat arsenic she has go old.”

As aggravated Congress leaders asked Singh to apologise, enactment workers protested extracurricular the minister’s authoritative residence successful Lucknow and defaced the gate. “This is Dinesh Singh, a curate successful the UP authorities and a BJP leader, who mislaid the Parliamentary elections badly. Look astatine his connection and thoughts astir women… Such radical are ministers successful the BJP government. That is wherefore the information of women information is atrocious successful the state,” UP Congress president Ajay Rai said.

Former authorities Congress main Ajay Kumar Lallu said, “This is the connection of a curate successful the Yogi Adityanath authorities against the wide caput of a nationalist party. This outrage of radical of BJP and RSS against women is an illustration of their “rajnitik sanskar” (political culture).”

Later successful the day, Singh took to X to people the Gandhi family, calling them “fake Gandhis”. “A governmental idiosyncratic starts his governmental vocation from his home, whereas nary 1 from the Gandhi household has been capable to bash authorities from his home. We each cognize that these fake Gandhi household spent their generations successful Delhi but nary opened a store of emotion successful Delhi due to the fact that that store cannot tally successful Delhi,” the BJP curate said.

Singh, who was earlier with the Congress, claimed that Rahul and his parent Sonia Gandhi “have been capable to past successful Rae Bareli and Amethi with the assistance of others”, and if voters of different parties supporting them are withdrawn, they would beryllium losers”.