'Our people don't even know how to take money': Pankaja Munde courts controversy

January 07, 2017 20:03

Not new to controversies, BJP leader and Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde has now raised eyebrows with her remark that "our people don't even know how to take (bribe) money".

"Aapalya lokanna paisa kasa khayacha te kalat nahi, kothehee sahyaa kartaat. (Our people do not even know how to take money (bribe). They sign any paper)," said the women and child welfare minister, who was last month given a clean chit in the 'chikki' case by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, at a meet in Neknoor village in Beed district.

Local news channels aired the video of her purported remarks made on January 5 evening while speaking at the rally in her native district in central Maharashtra.

Munde, who is the daughter of late BJP leader Gopinath Munde, is also the Guardian Minister of Beed and Latur districts in Marathwada.

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