Sunanda Pushkar: I don't expect Modi to apologise

October 31, 2012 14:14

Sunanda Pushkar speaking to Headlines Today, from a location we assume is her home given the massive painting and photograph with her husband Shashi Tharoor

Asked to comment on Narendra Modi's Rs 50-crore girlfriend remark, Pushkar says she does not understand the response of the BJP and it was unbecoming for a chief minister to say something like that and that she was disappointed with Modi.

"Narendra Modi should learn to respect women. I don't expect an apology from Mr Modi. A man who couldn't apologise for the Gujarat riots would never apologise for this," she says. "No woman is OK with Modi's remark," she added.

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