Delhi Assembly polls: Row over BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri's reference to roads citing Priyanka Gandhi

Senior BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri sparks controversy by promising to develop roads in Kalkaji like Priyanka Gandhi's "cheeks".

Senior BJP leader and party’s candidate from Kalkaji, Ramesh Bidhuri, has yet again courted controversy by allegedly saying that after victory in the Delhi Assembly polls next month, he will develop smooth roads in the constituency like Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi’s “cheeks”.

No reaction of Mr. Bidhuri was available over his remarks and the attack on him by the Congress.

“I assure you that just as we made the roads in Okhla and Sangam Vihar, we will make all the roads in Kalkaji like Priyanka Gandhi’s cheeks,” Mr. Bidhuri is heard saying in the purported video, which went viral on social media.

Congress candidate from Kalkaji and Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba lashed out at Mr. Bidhuri and accused him of “insulting” women once again in his “usual indecent language”.

“Will the public in Kalkaji have such (a person) who cares neither for the dignity of the House (Parliament) nor respects the women,” she said in a post on X. She demanded Mr. Bidhuri to tender a public apology for his statement and asked the senior BJP leaders to clear their stand on the issue.

The Mahila Congress workers led by Ms. Lamba also torched an effigy of Mr. Bidhuri over his alleged statement against Ms. Gandhi.

“The statement was made by Mr. Bidhuri during campaigning in Kalkaji constituency on Saturday (January 4, 2025),” one of his aides said.