Indian Overseas Congress Chairman, Sam Pitroda, has sparked a controversy with his statement in which he said that people in the South India look like Africans, those in the East resemble Chinese, and those in the West resemble Arabs. The BJP has slammed Pitroda over his controversial remarks.

Assam Chief Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma slammed Pitroda for his controversial remarks and said he is from the North East and he looks like an Indian. He added that India is a diverse country where everyone may look different but everybody is one.  He advised the Congress leader to understand a little about India.

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla also criticized Sam Pitroda and said that these were racist comments by a man who is the guru of Rahul Gandhi.  He said it is the words and thinking of Rahul Gandhi only because these days Rahul is also playing the politics of divide and rule to such an extent that first they divide on caste and language lines and now they are doing Indians Vs Indians.

Poonawalla further added that to make comments like Indians are like Chinese shows Pitroda’s racist mindset which is insulting to the very idea of India. The BJP spokesperson said such racist comments by the Congress leader show that Congress’ Mohabbat ki dukaan actually has Nafrat ka saaman. He said that unless Congress gives a complete explanation and sacks Sam Pitroda, such controversial remarks should be taken as the statement of the Congress.

BJPs Mandi Lok Sabha seat candidate Kangana Ranaut slammed the Congress leader for his racist remarks and said, Sam Pitroda is Rahul Gandhi’s mentor. She said everyone should listen to his racist & divisive jibes for Indians. She said Congress’s ideology is about divide & rule. She said it is sickening to call fellow Indians Chinese and African and the Congress should be ashamed of leaders like Sam Pitroda.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Telangana’s Karimnagar on Wednesday, asked Rahul Gandhi’s deals with businessmen Adani and Ambani and asked why he had stopped abusing them just before the beginning of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. PM Modi also asked if Gandhi had received huge sums of money from Ambani and Adani as he had stopped attacking them suddenly.

The prime minister pointed out that Congress’s shehzada (prince), for the past five years, has been chanting as soon as he woke up in the morning. Ever since his Rafale issue got grounded, he started a new chant. For five years, he was chanting – 5 businessmen, 5 businessmen. Then he started saying Ambani, Adani, Ambani, Adani. But ever since elections have been announced, he has stopped abusing Ambani, Adani.

PM Modi said he wanted to ask from the land of Telangana that how much has the prince taken from Ambani, Adani this election. How many bags of black money has Rahul Gandhi got? He took a dig at the Congress leader and asked him if a tempo filled with notes reached for the Congress?

What deal has been made that Rahul Gandhi had stopped abusing Ambani-Adani overnight. For five years the Congress leader has been abusing Ambani, Adani and it has stopped overnight.   The prime minister said this means Rahul Gandhi must have got something. He said the Congress leader will have to answer to the people of the country on this.

 In his Telangana rally, the PM Modi said Gandhi has a habit of sparking controversies in election season and recounted how he had taken up the issue of alleged corruption in the Rafale aircraft deal ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Prime Minister’s counter strike is significant because Gandhi has repeatedly accused the Modi government of favouring top industrialists. The Congress leader has also said that while the BJP government has made 22 Indians billionaires, the Congress aims to make crores of people lakhpati if it comes to power in the ongoing Lok sabha elections.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday attacked Rahul Gandhi over former Pakistan minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain’s praise for him in a post on X(formierly Twitter). Speaking at a rally, Irani also said Amethi now has a factory of AK 203 rifles, which are being used to neutralise Pakistani terrorists on the border.

The Union Minister added Chaudhry should be worrying about Pakistan and not Amethi. Irani said at the rally that until now she had been fighting a Congress leader, but now a Pakistani leader has said that Smriti Irani should be defeated. She took a dig at Chaudhry Fawad Hussain and said he is unable to handle Pakistan and is are worrying about Amethi.

Irani further added that if her voice reaches the leader of Pakistan, she wanted to tell him that this is the Amethi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set up a factory of the AK 203 rifles, which are being used to neutralize Pakistani terrorists on the border. The Union Minister pointed out that Rahul Gandhi has yet not condemned the former Pakistani minister’s social media post, and questioned his relationship with Pakistan.

Smriti Irani sharpened her attack on the Congress leader and said, chunaav chal raha hai desh me, samarthan mil raha hai aapko videsh me, which roughly means Elections are happening in the country, but you are garnering support from foreign soil.

Earlier in the month of May, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain had shared a video featuring Rahul Gandhi, showing him targeting the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the video, Gandhi could also be seen attacking the BJP government over the invitees at Ram Temple consecration ceremony.

On May 4, Chaudhary again praised Rahul Gandhi in an X post, this time, over his party’s promise of conducting a wealth redistribution survey, if it was voted to power. He even compared Rahul Gandhi with his great-grandfather and India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and said both were socialists.