CT Ravi’s ‘pure blooded’ ‘mixed blooded’ tetort to Priyank Kharge’s remarks triggers controversy
Chikkamagaluru: Senior BJP leader C.T. Ravi has stirred controversy with a sharp response to Minister Priyank Kharge’s earlier remarks over the Maddur issue.
Speaking to reporters on Monday evening, Ravi questioned, “If stones are thrown at our deity’s procession, should we remain silent? If a petrol bomb is hurled, should we remain quiet? If someone spits on our god, should we tolerate it? If slogans of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ are raised, should we just watch? Pure-blooded people are with me, those with mixed blood are with them. The mixed-blooded will remain silent, but we will not.”
His remarks came as a counter to Priyank Kharge, who had earlier asked whether Ravi would tell his own children to behead or break limbs of others. Responding to this, Ravi made the controversial “mixed blood” remark against the minister.
Defending his comments, Ravi added, “It would only be wrong if I had quoted only the latter part of his statement without the former. But I spoke considering the full context.”
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
