‘Disgusting’: BJP slams Sam Pitroda over his 'People in east look like Chinese, in South like Africans' remark

Speaking connected India's diversity, Pitroda said radical successful the South "look similar Africans and those successful the East look similar Arabs and those successful the East look similar Chinese."

"We person survived 75 years successful a precise blessed situation wherever radical could unrecorded together, leaving speech a fewer fights present and there. We could clasp a state unneurotic arsenic divers arsenic India, wherever radical connected the eastbound look similar Chinese, radical connected the West look similar Arab, radical connected the North look similar achromatic and possibly radical connected the South look similar Africans," Pitroda said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has deed backmost astatine Pitroda implicit his remark.

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was 1 of the archetypal to respond erstwhile helium took to X and slammed Pitroda implicit his remarks and said, "Sam bhai, I americium from the North East and I look similar an Indian. We are a divers state - we whitethorn look antithetic but we are each one. Understand a small astir our country!"

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla besides joined successful the disapproval alleging that these were racist comments by a antheral who is the guru of Rahul Gandhi.

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"It is the words and reasoning of Rahul Gandhi lone due to the fact that these days Rahul is besides playing the authorities of disagreement and regularisation to specified an grade that archetypal they disagreement connected caste and connection lines and present they are doing Indians Vs Indians. To marque comments similar Indians are similar Chinese. Isn't this a racist comment? Isn't this insulting? Indians are looking similar Africans. Isn't it the remark connected the full South people? By making these comments, it shows that Congress' "Mohabbat ki dukaan" really has "Nafrat ka saaman". Unless Congress gives a implicit mentation and sacks Sam Pitroda, this should beryllium taken arsenic the connection of the Congress," Poonawalla said.

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"Sam Pitroda is Rahul Gandhi's mentor. Listen to his racist & divisive jibes for Indians. Their full ideology is astir disagreement & rule. It's sickening to telephone chap Indians Chinese and African. Shame connected Congress!" BJP's Mandi Lok Sabha spot campaigner Kangana Ranaut said.

Pitroda had earlier courted contention erstwhile helium had advocated an inheritance tax-like instrumentality successful the country. However, the Congress had officially distanced itself from Pitroda's comments saying that they did not bespeak the presumption of the enactment astatine each times.

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Published: 08 May 2024, 12:43 PM IST