A day after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in contrast Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a `toxic snake`, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA in Karnataka on Friday termed the previous INC chief Sonia Gandhi a `visha kanye` (venomous woman). Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, the BJP legislator from the Vijayapura constituency, questioned Kharge, “if PM Modi is a poisonous snake, then Sonia Gandhi must be visha kanye”? “Being the president of a national party, Kharge does not know how to respect the Prime Minister,” Yatnal stated at a rally.Â
Reacting to this, Karnataka unit Congress president D.Okay. Shivakumar stated “no one knows what will happen to Yatnal for using such a low-level language.” “The Congress would not tolerate Yatnal`s remark. BJP leaders must tender apology for this. PM Modi and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai should also apologise, and sack Yatnal from the party,” Shivakumar stated. The Congress chief stated it’s a dangerous behavior of the BJP leaders to challenge statements towards the Nehru-Gandhi household.
“Our strength will be known on May 13,” he stated. Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers` Welfare Shobha Karandlaje, and Karnataka Minister for Higher Education C.N. Ashwath Narayan have said that they don’t agree with Yatnal`s statements, and “those were made at an individual level”.
