A day after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a ‘poisonous snake’, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA in Karnataka on Friday referred to former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as ‘Visha Kanya’ (poisonous woman). relaxed me. BJP MLA from Vijayapura constituency Basangouda Patil Yatnal asked Kharge, “If PM Modi is a poisonous snake, then Sonia Gandhi must be Vish Kanya”? “Being the president of a national party, Kharge does not know how to respect the prime minister,” Yatnal said at a rally.
Reacting to this, Congress’s Karnataka unit president DK Shivakumar said, “No one knows what will happen to Yatnal for using such a low level of language.” Shivakumar said, “Congress will not tolerate Yatnal’s remarks. BJP leaders should apologize for this. PM Modi and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai should also apologize and Yatnal should be sacked from the party.” The Congress leader said that it is a bad habit of BJP leaders to make statements against the Nehru-Gandhi family.
“Our strength will be known on May 13,” he said. Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje and Karnataka Higher Education Minister CN Ashwath Narayan have said that they do not agree with Yatnal’s statements, and “they were made at a personal level”.