Congress seeks expulsion of MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal from BJP for calling Sonia Gandhi visha kanya (venomous woman)
The Hindu
BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal is the BJP candidate for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections from Vijayapura, and is in the list of star campaigners of the party
BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal reportedly described former Congress president and MP Sonia Gandhi as a visha kanya (venomous woman) in a bid to counter All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge’s ‘poisonous snake’ remark allegedly about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mr Yatnal is the BJP candidate for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections from Vijayapura, and is in the list of star campaigners of the party. Addressing a campaign rally in Koppal, he allegedly said, “Is Sonia Gandhi a venomous woman? She worked with China and Pakistan as their agent.”
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On April 28, KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar hit out at the BJP for Mr Yatnal’s remark about Sonia Gandhi and demanded an apology from Mr Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for allegedly ‘insulting Sonia Gandhi’.
He urged BJP president J.P. Nadda to expel Mr Yatnal from the BJP.
On April 27, Congress star campaigner and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said Mr Modi is ‘like a poisonous snake. Don’t try to lick this snake to check whether it is venomous or not. If you taste it, you are dead’.
The remark triggered sharp reactions from the BJP. Later, Mr Kharge clarified that his remark was against the BJP ideology, and not a personal attack on any individual.
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