"Speaking on fertility rate, Nitish Kumar used some words that should not have been spoken. The chief minister has expressed regret for it. The matter has closed. He felt that he should not have spoken those words. Now let us play some audio clips of the Prime Minister. Has the PM ever expre
"If his (Nitish Kumar) intentions were bad, then he would have come in the category of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh; sometimes the choice of words is wrong and for this, he has apologised. As far as Nitish Kumar is concerned, there are two things in that statement. One is intention and one is c
Sitharaman made the remark while addressing the media persons in the state capital Bhopal on Thursday. She has arrived here in view of campaigning for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election to be held this month.
"The Congress is following the British policy of divide and rule. They should not try to divide the society in the name of caste. I request Congress to work for the poor people and should not divide the society on the basis of caste," Vijayvargiya said.
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.
"Nitish Kumar now has no right to be Chief Minister. A person who insults women like this has no right to be a CM. He should leave the position, apologising won't work," CM Chouhan said.
After facing backlash from the opposition, Bihar police again retorted lathi-charge and used water cannons to disperse the Anganwadi protestors on Thursday.
Sarma made the remark while speaking to ANI in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district on Thursday in view of Singh's remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him "No.1 liar".
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.
"No one has the right to use any derogatory words against any woman. Nitish Kumar has even apologised. The BJP has a habit of taking up any topic and making an issue of it. Their people have also insulted women and used derogatory remarks against them a lot of times," Crasto said.
"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.