Assam: BJP MP compares Nehru-Gandhi with garbage, Congress demands his arrest

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Assam has stoked a controversy by allegedly comparing Mahatma Gandhi and India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with garbage.

Addressing a public rally at Sonari in Sivsagar district,  the Lok Sabha member Kamakhya Prasad Tasa said that the Congress has pushed the Nehru-Gandhi garbage into the minds of people over the years and there is now no space for any other theory, reported IANS.

The Congress has lodged an FIR in a Guwahati police station and demanded the MP's arrest.

The report also said that Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was seated on the podium where Tasa was speaking.

"The MP ... described Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi as garbage. Therefore, we seek his immediate arrest and prosecution under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)," read the FIR.

Assam Congress leader Ripun Bora said that Tasa's remark was an unpardonable offence and demanded his immediate arrest.