Nitin Gadkari should apologise to Yadav duo, demands MP Congress

The main Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh today demanded an apology from BJP president Nitin Gadkari for making objectionable remarks against Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad.

Led by deputy leader of the Congress Legislature Party, Choudhry Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi and MLAs including Ajay Singh, Tulsi Silavat, Mahendra Singh Kalukheda, Kalpana Parulekar and Bala Bachchan, raised slogans against Gadkari and demanded an apology for humiliating the Yadav duo.

Gadkari yesterday had made some objectionable remarks against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad for not supporting the cut motion in the Lok Sabha. He had said they "pretended to be lions" but later bowed down before the CBI. In this context, he also made some abusive remarks.

Meanwhile, the Congress MLAs staged hour-long sit-in on the stairs leading to Vidhan Sabha as its agitation to protest holding a special session of the House just on the issue of development entered third day today.

"There is hardly anything new the House was discussing for last three days which it had not discussed during the earlier sessions," Ajay told reporters.

"The session was not called to discuss developmental issue, but to praise Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan," he said.

"There was nothing new in it and is unconstitutional," he added.