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Narrow mindset: Sonia
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday dismissed Union minister Giriraj Singh\'s \"racist\" remarks as stemming from a \"narrow mindset\" even as party members staged protests while the BJP sought the matter to be closed as he had expressed regrets.
Giriraj Singh’s racist remarks
Bhopal/New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday dismissed Union minister Giriraj Singh's "racist" remarks as stemming from a "narrow mindset" even as party members staged protests while the BJP sought the matter to be closed as he had expressed regrets.
Gandhi, who visited Madhya Pradesh to meet farmers whose crops have been damaged in the recent untimely rains, expressed ignorance about the remarks. "What did he say," she asked reporters in a brief interaction during her visit, and after having been told, conveyed her disdain. "It is not appropriate to respond to or comment on people with such narrow mindset. This is my answer," Gandhi said.
Singh, who is union minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises, had told reporters in Patna on Tuesday that he wondered if former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had married a non-white Nigerian woman, would the Congress still have accepted her as its president.
Sources said party president Amit Shah had spoken to Singh on Wednesday and pulled him up over the comments. Congress leaders have strongly denounced Singh's remarks and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should dismiss him and apologise to the nation. Congress workers protested in New Delhi against Singh's remark.
In Bihar, a Congress leader on Thursday filed a court case against Giriraj Singh. "I have filed a case in the chief judicial magistrate's court against Giriraj Singh for his racist remark against Sonia Gandhi and for insulting and hurting the sentiments of women," said Sanjay Kumar Singh, a Congress leader from Muzaffarpur district.
