BJP MLA calls Sonia Gandhi ‘Vish Kanya’

Bengaluru (IANS) | A day after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a ‘poisonous snake’, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA in Karnataka on Friday dubbed former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as ‘Vish Kanya’. BJP MLA from Vijayapura constituency Basangowda Patil Yatnal asked Kharge, if PM Modi is poisonous snake, then Sonia Gandhi must be Vish Kanya? Being the president of the national party, Kharge does not know how to respect the Prime Minister.

Reacting to this, Karnataka unit Congress President D.K. Shivkumar said, no one knows what will happen to Yatnal if he uses such low level language. Shivakumar said, the Congress will not tolerate Yatnal’s remarks. BJP leaders should apologize for this. PM Modi and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai should also apologize and Yatnal should be expelled from the party.

The Congress leader said that it is a bad habit of BJP leaders to make statements against the Nehru-Gandhi family. Our strength will be known on May 13, he said.

Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje and Karnataka Higher Education Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan has said that he does not agree with Yatnal’s statements.

–IANS