Party Leader Who Called Sonia Gandhi A ‘Foreigner’, Sacked
Party Leader Who Called Sonia Gandhi A ‘Foreigner’, Sacked A day after Jai Prakash Singh claimed that Congress president Rahul Gandhi cannot become the country’s prime minister due to his “mother’s foreign origin”. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati removed him from the post of party national coordinator on Tuesday. “I have come to know about BSP national coordinator Jai Prakash Singh’s speech. He has taken a stance at variance with the BSP’s ideology, and also made personal remarks against the leadership of rival parties. As this is his personal opinion, he has been removed from his post with immediate effect,” she said. “It is high time Mayawati became the country’s prime minister,” Jai Prakash Singh had said at the party’s first workers’ conference on Monday. “After playing a pivotal role in making HD Kumaraswamy the chief minister of Karnataka, Mayawati has emerged as a powerful politician. She is the only ‘dabang’ (fearless) leader who can stop the winning chariot of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in the electoral battle.” The party’s national coordinator also insisted that Rahul cannot be the country’s future prime minister because he “looks more like his mother than his father”. Mayawati possessed better credentials to occupy the top post because she was a “grassroots leader who has served as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister four times”, he added. “During the oath-taking ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy, opposition leaders rallied behind Mayawati on the dais. This clearly indicates that she is playing a pivotal role in the anti-Modi alliance,” he said. “Anyone can dream of becoming the PM these days, even if they do not have a single seat in the Lok Sabha. A leader with 44 seats like Rahul Gandhi is dreaming of becoming the PM and a leader like Mayawati - with no seat - is also dreaming of becoming the PM,” said Anil Baluni, BJP member in the Rajya Sabha. -PTC News
