Sam Pitroda
Congress leader Sam Pitroda has resigned from the post of President of Indian Overseas Congress. Jairam Ramesh has informed that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has accepted the resignation of Sam Pitroda. Today itself, controversy had arisen over another comment by Sam Pitroda in which he had said that “people from the East look like Chinese and South Indians look like African citizens.” PM Modi had also termed his statement as apartheid. The ruling BJP hit out at Pitroda over his “racist” comments, claiming they exposed the opposition party’s “divisive” politics.
Congress called it unfortunate and unacceptable
The Congress, however, distanced itself from Pitroda’s comments, calling them unfortunate and unacceptable. The party said it “completely disassociates” itself from these comments. Dissociating himself from Pitroda’s remarks, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh had said on ‘X’, “The analogies given by Sam Pitroda to India’s diversity are extremely wrong and unacceptable.” The Indian National Congress completely disassociates itself from these analogies.
What did Sam Pietrada say?
Pitroda had said in a podcast, “We have been living in a very pleasant environment for 75 years, where people can live together except for a few fights.” Pitroda said in this interview widely circulated on social media. , “We can keep a diverse country like India united. Where people in the East look like Chinese, people in the West look like Arabs, people in the North look like whites and South Indians look like Africans.” He said, ”It doesn’t matter, we are all sisters and brothers. In India, people of different regions have different customs, food, religion, language, but the people of India respect each other.
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