- Thursday, February 27, 2025
Reacting to the BJP’s allegation against Gandhi, Singh also flayed Irani saying she does such things only to get highlighted.
By: Shubham Ghosh
A DAY after the debate on an unsuccessful no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government in the parliament was marred by a ‘flying kiss’ controversy with several women parliamentarians of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accusing opposition Rahul Gandhi of displaying an inappropriate conduct vis-a-vis cabinet minister Smriti Irani, a fresh row erupted with an opposition leader from the eastern state of Bihar making a derogatory remark on Irani.
Neetu Singh, a member of Gandhi’s Indian National Congress in the legislative assembly of Bihar, said in a video that Gandhi has no dearth of young women and asked why would he blow a flying kiss to a 50-year-old buddhi (old woman) and not a young one?
The video went viral on social media.
Reacting to the BJP’s allegation against Gandhi, Singh also flayed Irani saying she does such things only to get highlighted. “Smriti Irani jumps seeing Rahul Gandhi just like a buffalo does when seeing a red cloth,” she said in another video.
Smriti Irani jumps whenever she looks at Rahul Gandhi,
just like a Buffalo jumps seeing red dress.– Bihar Congress MLA Nitu Singh ?? pic.twitter.com/nGArTOknQb
— Manjeet Singh Ghoshi (@ghoshi_manjeet) August 11, 2023
Irani herself slammed Gandhi over the alleged flying kiss act, calling him a “misogynistic man”.
The BJP countered the lawmaker’s words against Irani and called it “shameful”.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala accused the Congress to be an “anti-women party” and that it could go to any extent to defend Gandhi.
On Thursday (10), a number of women BJP parliamentarians met Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and demanded “strict action” against Gandhi who got reinstated as the parliamentarian earlier this week after the Supreme Court of India stayed the conviction in a criminal defamation case.
In a complaint signed by more than 20 women MPs, it was alleged that the Congress parliamentarian made the “inappropriate gesture” towards Irani when she was speaking in the House during the debate on the no-trust move against the government.
