"Old Woman": Uttarakhand BJP Chief's Remark Has Congress Up In Arms

Wednesday, 6 January 2021Newsdesk

The opposition Congress in Uttarakhand has demanded that the state Bharatiya Janata Party chief Bansidhar Bhagat apologise for his derogatory and sexist comment on Leader of the Opposition Indira Hridayesh.

New Delhi, 06 January 2021

As per news report of NDTV, responding to 79-year-old Ms Hridayesh's remark that some BJP MLAs who are not happy with the party were in touch with her, Bansidhar Bhagat had questioned why they should contact "an old woman". "Our LoP is saying that several MLAs are in our touch... arre budhia, tujhse kyun sampark karengey (Why would they get in touch with an old woman like you?" he had said. "Who would contact a sinking ship?" he had added, to laughter and cheers from the assembled BJP workers at a programme.

Source -NDTV