With electioneering for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls gaining steam in Uttar Pradesh, political leaders are increasingly resorting to personal attacks on their adversaries. If the maverick BJP MLA from Bairia, Surendra Singh hit the headlines for his remarks against BSP supremo Mayawati, Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Shrikant Sharma hit a new low by making indecent comments on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
The Bairia MLA had said Mayawati gets facials done and her hair coloured even though she is 60-years-old. He also reportedly made offensive remarks against UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Haryanvi singer-dancer Sapna Chaudhary, evoking widespread criticism from political parties and social media users.
A media agency quoted him as saying that both Sonia Gandhi and Sapna Chaudhary used to work as dancers. “Rahul’s mother (Sonia Gandhi) was also in the same profession in Italy and his father made her his own. He (Rahul Gandhi) should also take the family tradition forward and make Sapna his own,” the MLA said. The BJP legislator, who is known for his controversial statements, had earlier termed Rahul and his sister Priyanka “Ravana and Shurpanakha”, and accused Mayawati of “murdering” a woman’s dignity by joining hands with one-time arch rival SP. UP Power Minister Shrikant Sharma stirred up a hornet’s nest with his tweet terming the Congress president a “coward and impotent”.
The comments triggered a war of words between the two parties as well as on social media platform.