Sam Pitroda has resigned as the Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress due to continuing controversy over his racist statement. The national president of the grand old party, Mallikarjun Kharge, has accepted his decision.
However, barely had the dust settled on Pitroda’s ‘inheritance tax’ when he stirred a new trouble for the grand old party with his latest remark on India’s diversity. He is seen as close to Rahul Gandhi and said that people in India’s East look like Chinese while those in South India look like Africans.
In which case, Pitroda is always remembered by how he once said that “We have been able to get through 75 years happily where people are living together peacefully”.
“We don’t care if we could not come up with a nation such as india – where South indian individuals resemble Africans, individuals from east india appear like chinese while west indians look like arabs and perhaps north indians seem like whites,” stated pitroda during an interview in The Statsman.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju spoke to CNN over Pitroda’s resignation and said, “I was personally hurt and shocked by such a statement, we are not taking this lightly.”
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is nothing but Sam Pitroda’s ideas personified-BJP leader. Rijiju asked whether or not pitroda stepping down was immaterial before asking if “he can be taken away from being Rahul’s mentor?”
This has led several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to blast Congress for its racist comments made by Sam Pitroda. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also criticized the Grand Old Party for insulting Indians based on their color.
”When they throw abuse at me I can take it but not my people. This racist mentality will never be accepted,” PM Modi added.
Meanwhile, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman who is from Tamil and represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha said, “I am from South and I look as Indian as any of my teammates from Northeast India or West India. But for racist mentor of Rahul Gandhi, we all look African, Chinese, Arab and the White,” she posted on ‘X’.
