A Bihar court on Thursday ordered police to file an FIR against Union Minister Giriraj Singh for his controversial remarks on Sonia Gandhi who ignored the racist comment saying she won't respond to people with "narrow mindset".
A Bihar court on Thursday ordered police to file an FIR against Union Minister Giriraj Singh for his controversial remarks on Sonia Gandhi who ignored the racist comment saying she won't respond to people with "narrow mindset". The Congress also took to streets stepping up its demand for sacking of Singh, staging protests in Delhi and also in Bengaluru where BJP leaders have gathered for the party's national executive meet.
The BJP, meanwhile, said it considers the matter closed as the minister has expressed his regret.
Giriraj kicked up a row after he remarked whether Congress would have accepted Sonia's leadership had she not been white-skinned. Speaking to reporters in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh where she had gone to survey the damaged crops and meet farmers, she feels "it is not worth responding to persons having such a narrow mindset."
In Bihar, Sanjay Kumar Singh, a Congress worker, filed a complaint against Giriraj in the court of Muzaffarpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Ved Prakash Singh, who transferred the case to the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Anju Singh. The SDJM directed Mithanpura police to register a case against the minister on the basis of the complaint, said advocate Sumit Kumar, who appeared for the petitioner.
Singh came under attack even from BJP ally and Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha.
In Bengaluru, Congress and NSUI workers assembled at a major junction, about one km away from a hotel where top BJP leaders have gathered for the party's two-day national executive meeting beginning Friday. They shouted slogans against Singh and burnt his effigy.
"Giriraj has clarified and expressed his regret. The matter has ended and should not be made an issue," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters in Bengaluru.
—With inputs from agencies
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