Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took a dig at the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) on Wednesday and said that parties have conceded defeat in half the battle since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reached halfway towards achieving the goal of 'Abki Baar, 400 Paar.'
While addressing a public meeting in Hardoi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah attacked Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, and said, "It the INDIA bloc comes to power after the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, it will put a 'Babri' lock at the Ram temple in Ayodhya."
Sam Pitroda, whose remarks "people of the east look like the Chinese and those of the south look like Africans" caused a major political furore in election season and embarrassed the Congress, resigned as Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress on Wednesday.
Rijiju said that the Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, Sam Pitroda, has categorized Indians based on different looks, which could lead to a split in thinking regarding unity and integrity.
Rebutting the remarks made by Congress leader Sam Pitroda on the diversity of India, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took a jibe at him and said that she is from South India and she looks Indian.
Soon after Congress leader Sam Pitroda courted a new controversy by tagging people residing in various regions of India with a certain facial feature, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said he is weighing in legal options to book the former.
Further, he said that those affected by the ideas of such foreign advisors can't understand the idea when the Prime Minister says that India is the mother of democracy.
In a post on X, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The analogies drawn by Sam Pitroda in a podcast to illustrate India's diversity are most unfortunate and unacceptable. The Indian National Congress completely dissociates itself from these analogies."
Former Union Minister and Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday lashed out at Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress Sam Pitroda over his 'racist' remarks about how people in the South "look like Africans and those in the East look like Arabs and those in the East look like Chines
"Congress is directionless. They cannot do anything except break the country. They neither have a leader nor leadership. This time Congress will be left with half the seats as compared to last time. In such a situation, it has nothing else to do except give such controversial statements," Go