Congress leader Sachin Pilot terms BJP MLA’s ‘vishkanya’ remark on Sonia Gandhi as ‘Unfortunate language….’

A day after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal called Congress chief Sonia Gandhi a ‘vishkanya’ (venomous woman) and “an agent of China and Pakistan”, Rajasthan Congress leader Sachin Pilot said on Saturday that the language being used against Gandhi was unfortunate. While Congress blamed PM Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai after Karnataka BJP MLA Yatnal called Sonia Gandhi ‘vishkanya’.

Pilot said, “The kind of language that is being used against the leaders is unfortunate. It is setting a negative example in politics. Sonia Gandhi is a very senior leader and was president of Congress party, using such language for her is highly condemnable.”

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Congress, in a statement demanding a public apology to Sonia Gandhi, said, “The kind of things that have been said about Sonia Gandhi ji at the behest of Prime Minister Modi and Amit Shah and under the patronage of Bommai, the people of Karnataka and the country will account for it.”

Yatnal, addressing a public rally in Koppal in poll-bound Karnataka, on Friday, called Congress chief Sonia Gandhi a ‘vishkanya’ (venomous woman) and “an agent of China and Pakistan”. Yatnal said, “The Congress compares him (Modi) to a cobra and says he is poisonous. Congress leaders are dancing on the orders of Sonia Gandhi and making such comments. Is she a vishkanya? She is an agent for China and Pakistan, who destroyed the country.”

Yatnal also said in his speech, “The entire world appreciates PM Narendra Modi. The US had not given him a visa once upon a time, but today PM Modi has emerged as a world leader who receives a red carpet welcome and rubs shoulders with world leaders.”