LED BY PM MODI, BJP RIPS CONG TO SHREDS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP’s all-out attack on the Congress on Wednesday over Sam Pitroda’s analogy to depict India’s diversity as he slammed his comments as “racist” and asserted that people will not tolerate the attempt to insult them on the basis of their skin colour.

Pitroda’s choice of ethnic and racial identities like Chinese, Arabs, Whites and Africans at a podcast to describe how Indians from different parts of the country look landed the Congress in yet another soup.

At his rallies in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Modi said he is livid with the racial profiling of Indians by the US-based “philosopher and uncle of shehzada (Rahul Gandhi)”, and linked the Congress’s opposition to Droupadi Murmu’s presidential bid to its mindset, which saw her as an “African” because of her dark skin.

He asked the Congress chief ministers of Karnataka and Telangana, Siddaramaiah and A Revanth Reddy respectively, if they will accept “such an accusation”.

The prime minister asked if Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin will snap the DMK’s ties with the Congress for Tamil pride. “Do they have the guts?” he asked.