Keeping up the attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his distasteful birth control remarks, BJP MLAs on Friday staged a demonstration both inside and outside the Assembly, demanding his resignation.
The chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Rekha Sharma, came down heavily on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his 'derogatory' birth control remarks in the state assembly.
Opposition party leaders inside the state assembly raised an uproar over the chief minister's remark on women and birth control and demanded his resignation.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Navneet Rana slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his controversial remark on women and population control and said that he should immediately resign from the post.
"I think he (CM Nitish Kumar) has lost his mental balance. His party should remove him from the Chief Minister's post. A chief minister with a lost mental balance is a threat to the state," CM Sarma said in MP's Khandwa.
"The objectionable statement that he made regarding women is not right. It is our responsibility to respect women. He has apologised for it but it does not work like that. There should be some action against him," Athawale said.
"He (Nitish Kumar) is a very senior leader and his statement is shameful, condemnable and painful. This shows the established low mentality of the leaders of the INDIA bloc for women," the BJP leader said.
Terming the statement by the JDU Supremo as "highly condemnable", the BJP leader said, "I condemn the statement of Nitish Kumar on women. The manner in which Nitish Kumar of the INDI Alliance has used such language for women, he will be given a befitting reply by the women of the country. Ni
Dialling down the controversy triggered after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's remarks on the importance of women's education to control the population, JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh on Wednesday said that the comments of his party's supremo were not objectionable.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's remarks on the importance of women's education to control the population is a result of his sick mentality.
National Lok Janshakti Party President Chirag Paswan demanded an 'immediate resignation' of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his distasteful remarks on women and birth control in the state Assembly. The LJP Supremo said that a President's rule should be imposed in Bihar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a strong attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his derogatory remarks against women in relation to population control and said crass words were uttered in the state assembly and there was "no shame".