Bengaluru, Dec 27: Former union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Anant kumar Hegde has triggered a row by apparently referring to interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi as ‘Italian lady’ and ‘Italian mother’.
Referring to Karnataka Congress leader DJ Shivakumar’s move to inaugurate the statue of Jesus Christ, Hegde tweeted in Kannada and said, “DK Shivakumar inaugurated the Christ Statue to impress Italian lady for party president’s post.”
Hegde suggested that Sonia Gandhi, referring to her as an Italian mother, would accord importance to only those leaders who become Christians. He further called on the Congress leaders to reject the slave mentality of the party.
“INC's Italian mother will only give importance to those who converted to Christianity. If the INC's leaders have an ounce of self-respect, they should reject the slavery mentality and the system of the Congress and leave the party,” the BJP leader went on to write further on Twitter.
The remarks are sure to attract criticism from the Congress party.
It may be recalled that the Italian origin of Sonia Gandhi has been a point of major controversy in the past. The issue even resonated during national elections and Sharad Pawar had quit the Congress to float his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) over Sonia Gandhi being made the Congress president.
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