Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to Congress chief Randeep Surjewala for his alleged ‘undignified’ comments against BJP MP Hema Malini. EC sought the Congress chief’s response by April 11, 2024 (5 pm).
Malini is a BJP Lok Sabha member from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh and is contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections from there.
EC seeks Congress chief response
The Election Commission additionally sought a response from Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge relating to the steps taken by the occasion to guarantee strict compliance with its advisories upholding the honour and dignity of girls throughout public discourse by all occasion leaders.
Surjewala has been requested to present his response to the Election Commission by the night of April 11, whereas Kharge has been granted till the next night to submit his respective response.
Here’s what Surjewala mentioned on Hema Malini
Earlier on April 3, BJP’s IT division head Amit Malviya shared a video wherein the Congress MP Surjewala could possibly be seen making a “vile sexist comment” against Malini.
Surjewala heard saying within the purported video, “Here is no Hema Malini who can make people licking…no film star. We also respect Hema Malini because she is married to Dharmendra and is our daughter-in-law. These people can be film stars. But, we are not like them. You make me or Gupta ji an MP-MLA so that we can serve you.”
Hema Malini reacts
Reacting to the controversy, Hema Malini, the latter mentioned on Thursday that the leaders of the opposition ought to find out how to respect ladies from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking to the reporters in Mathura, earlier than submitting her nominations for the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP chief and Bollywood veteran mentioned that the opposition targets solely ‘in style folks’. “They target only popular people because targeting the unpopular ones won’t do them any good… They should learn how to respect women from PM Narendra Modi,” she mentioned. Hema additional expressed her happiness over her re-nomination within the Lok Sabha elections from Mathura.
Surjewala questions authenticity of video
Surjewala mentioned that the video posted by the BJP chief has been edited, distorted and shared to distract the nation from the Modi authorities’s anti-youth, anti-farmer, anti-poor insurance policies and its conspiracy to destroy the Constitution of India. “BJP’s IT Cell has developed a habit of editing, distorting and spreading fake news so that it can distract the country from the Modi government’s anti-youth, anti-farmer, anti-poor policies and failures and its conspiracy to destroy the Constitution of India,” he mentioned. “Listen to the full video – I said, “We additionally respect Hema Malini rather a lot as a result of she is married to Dharmendra ji and is our daughter-in-law,” the Congress chief added.
