Cong slams BJP leader for calling Sonia vishkanya

April 28, 2023 14:03

The Congress on Friday hit at the BJP demanding expulsion of its leader Basangouda Patil Yatnal for calling Sonia Gandhi a "vishkanya". Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka and its leaders have lost their mental as well as political balance, asserting that Yatnal's remarks are the worst kind of sacrilege and abuse against Gandhi at the instance of Prime Minster Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.

Facing a complete rout in the assembly elections, the BJP leadership is frustrated to the core and is hurling filth and muck, which is the product of their ugly character and dirty mindset of denigrating and insulting the Congress leadership. They have lost all sense of propriety, political balance and even a remote iota of decency and decorum," he said in a statement.

"Instructed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and supported by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, BJP leader and Modi Ji's personal favourite Basangouda Patil Yatnal has stooped to the lowest by calling UPA chairperson and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi as Visha Kanye and Agent of China and Pakistan," Surjewala said.

The "vishkanya" remark against Gandhi by Yatnal, who is the Bijapur MLA and former minister, at a poll rally comes a day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the a poisonous snake.

Campaigning in Karnataka for the assembly polls is in full swing and the Congress seeks to wrest power from the BJP in the state. Karnataka is the only southern state where the BJP is in power. Prime minister Narendra Modi is set to begin his campaign in Karnataka on Saturday with a series of public meetings.

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