Facing flak, Maharashtra Minister Gulabrao Patil apologises for ‘roads like Hema Malini's cheeks’ remark
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Hema Malini, who is the BJP MP from Mathura, and the state women's commission had strongly objected to his remarks. The video of his remarks, which he had made on Saturday while addressing an election meeting for the Bodwad Nagar Panchayat polls in his district in north Maharashtra, had gone viral on social media.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister and senior Shiv Sena leader Gulabrao Patil, who had kicked up a controversy by comparing the roads in his constituency in Jalgaon district to actor Hema Malini's cheeks, has now apologized for the same.
“If my statement has hurt anyone, I apologise for it, but I didn't intend to hurt anyone,” Maharashtra minister Gulabrao Patil said on Tuesday.
Hema Malini, who is the BJP MP from Mathura, and the state women's commission had strongly objected to his remarks. The video of his remarks, which he had made on Saturday while addressing an election meeting for the Bodwad Nagar Panchayat polls in his district in north Maharashtra, had gone viral on social media.
