Bihar court orders FIR against Giriraj Singh, narrow mindset: Sonia Gandhi on remark
MUZAFFARPUR (BIHAR)/NEW DELHI: A Bihar court today ordered police to file an FIR against Union Minister Giriraj Singh for his controversial remarks on Sonia Gandhi who ignored the racist comment saying she won’t respond to people with “narrow mindset”.
The Congress also took to streets stepping up its demand for sacking of Singh staging protests in Delhi and also in Bengaluru where BJP leaders have gathered for its National Executive meet.
The BJP on its part sought to bring closure to the raging controversy, saying it considers the matter closed as the minister has expressed his regret.
As the outrage against Singh continued after he kicked up a row with his remarks asking whether Congress would have accepted Sonia’s leadership had she not been white-skinned, Singh came under attack even from BJP ally and Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha.
“It does not behove a union minister to speak in such a language…it’s objectionable remark,” Kushwaha, President Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), an ally of BJP, told reporters in Patna.
When newsmen sought her reaction, Sonia said she would not like to respond to people with “narrow mindset”.
“I feel it is not worth responding to persons having such a narrow mindset,” Gandhi told reporters in Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh where she had gone to survey the damaged crops and meet farmers.
In Bihar, Sanjay Kumar Singh, a Congress worker, filed a complaint against Singh for his remarks against Sonia in the court of Muzaffarpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Ved Prakash Singh, who transferred the case to the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Anju Singh.
The SDJM directed Mithanpura police station to register a case against the minister on the basis of the complaint, lawyer of the petitioner Sumit Kumar said.
The SDJM gave the order to Mithanpura police station under Section 166 of IPC (public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injury to any person).
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