New Delhi,Terming as "shameful and despicable" Ramdev's
controversial remarks against Rahul Gandhi, Congress today demanded an
unconditional apology from him as well as BJP's prime ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi alleging the yoga guru is part of his coterie.
"It
is a shameful and despicable statement," Finance Minister P Chidambaram
said while reacting to remarks by Ramdev that Rahul visits Dalit homes
for honeymoon. In an apparent attack on BJP, he said "I am ashamed that
somebody can make a statement like this and still a political party can embrace
it."The party fielded dalit leaders Kumari Selja and Krishna Tirath to
attack Ramdev at their press briefing, with the former stating that the remarks
by the yoga guru reflected a "perverse" mindset who has no regards
and respect for dalit women and views them only as a "commodity".
"We strongly deplore his remarks and demand an unconditional apology both
from him and Modi," she said.Ramdev's remarks were also deplored by the
Chairman of All India Mahila Congress Sobha Oza who sought to highlight
Ramdev's alleged close association with Modi, saying Ramdev is one of the
"nine jewels" of Modi and "is the most important figure in his
coterie".
"...he says such remarks and Modi stays silent. So
it seems Modi endorses his remarks, he should answer to the country whether he
endorses such remark, if no then he should apologise to dalits, along with
Ramdev," Oza said.Selja said BJP makes good use of Ramdev to garner
votes and slammed the party's defence of the yoga guru. "... Does BJP
support him ? They should answer it..We say that he, along with BJP, should
give nconditional apology and Narendra Modi himself should
apologise," she said.
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