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“Bakwas Ki Hai”: Robert Vadra Demands Accountability and Rejects Sam Pitroda’s “Racist” Remark
“Bakwas Ki Hai”: Robert Vadra Demands Accountability and Rejects Sam Pitroda’s “Racist” Remark
Robert Vadra, spouse of Congress pioneer Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Thursday excused Sam Pitroda’s ‘bigot’ comment and communicated wonder at how such an informed individual could offer such remarks.
Vadra stressed that while his better half, Priyanka, and brother by marriage Rahul Gandhi are effectively working for the party, Pitroda’s assertion gives an open door to the BJP to “raise superfluous issues.”
“I totally can’t help contradicting what Sam Pitroda has said. ‘Bakwas ki hai’. How might somebody so taught express something like this? He was exceptionally near Rajiv Gandhi yet he ought to be somewhat mindful,” Vadra told news office ANI.
Pitroda, a nearby partner of the Gandhi family, surrendered as executive of the Indian Abroad Congress on Wednesday following a contention ignited by his politically erroneous comments featuring India’s variety.
In a meeting with The Legislator, while discussing India’s variety, Pitroda said: “We could keep intact a country as different as India — where individuals on the East seem to be Chinese, individuals on the West seem to be Middle Easterners, individuals on the North look like perhaps Whites and individuals in South India seem to be Africans. It doesn’t make any difference. We are family.”
Following Pitroda’s comment, the video of the meeting immediately turned into a web sensation, drawing analysis from across the range. A few chiefs from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thrashed the Congress over Pitroda’s dubious comments and requested a statement of regret.
Top state leader Narendra Modi likewise reproached the terrific old party for ‘offending Indians in view of their variety’.
“I can endure it when misuses are flung at me, however not when they are heaved at my kin. We won’t acknowledge this bigoted attitude,” the Head of the state expressed.
In the interim, the Congress party additionally moved away from Pitroda’s comments. Senior Congress pioneer Jairam Ramesh mediated to moderate the reaction against his party, expressing, “The similarities drawn by Mr. Sam Pitroda in a digital recording to outline India’s variety are generally sad and unsuitable. The Indian Public Congress totally separates itself from these relationships.”
