Adhir Ranjan slammed for ‘koi safed, koi kala, Negrita class’ remark amid Sam Pitroda's 'African, Chinese' comparison

In the videos shared by BJP nationalist spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala, Congress person Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary is says, “We person Proto Australoids, Mongoloid class, Negrita people of people. Hai to hai (It is however it is). In the demography of our country, determination features are different. What idiosyncratic said is his idiosyncratic sentiment but it is existent that immoderate radical are white, immoderate dark".

Shehzad Poonawalla tweeted, "It shows that the words are Sam Pitroda, but soch is of Congress,"" slamming Adhir Chowdhary for his comments. 

"Is it justifying comments of Uncle Sam?" Poonawalla queried. 

Sam Pitroda, who resigned from the station of president of the Indian Overseas Congress, stoked a contention with his remarks during a podcast wherever helium cited taste and radical identities similar Chinese, Africans, Arabs and Whites to picture the carnal quality of Indians from antithetic parts of the country.

Sam Pitroda, successful an interrogation with 'The Statesman', portion reflecting upon the ideology successful India, said, "We person survived 75 years successful a precise blessed situation wherever radical could unrecorded together, leaving speech fewer fights present and there. We could clasp a state unneurotic arsenic divers arsenic India, wherever radical successful the East look similar Chinese, radical successful the West look similar Arab, radical successful the North look similar white, and possibly radical successful the South look similar Africans."

He said the radical of India respect antithetic languages, religions, nutrient and customs, which alteration from portion to region. "That's the India that I judge in, wherever everybody has a spot and everybody compromises a small bit," helium said.

The seasoned person was an advisor to erstwhile premier curate Rajiv Gandhi and has been intimately associated with Congress person Rahul Gandhi, who accompanied him during his overseas visits.

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Published: 09 May 2024, 07:57 PM IST