Team News Riveting
Bhopal, October 18
For former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, the leader is perfect as long as he or she is with his party, the Congress.
The leader who had a long and vast experience in politics cannot turn it down as merely a slip of touch; calling a former woman colleague in his cabinet as “item.”
During a public meeting as part of an on-going election campaign for by-poll in the state, the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister said: “Our candidate is not like her… what’s her name? (people shout Imarti Devi, who is former state minister) You know her better and should have warned me earlier… ye kya item hai.”
Imarti Devi is a BJP candidate from Dabra assembly constituency. In December 2018, she was inducted into the Kamal Nath cabinet as Public Health and Family Welfare. During the 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis, she supported senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and was one of the 22 MLAs who resigned to topple the Kamal Nath government.
The development fumed the Congress leader to the extent that he had allegedly started using the derogatory words against his own former colleague. A senior woman Congress leader quipped: “Now, I have to think twice to leave Congress to avoid being called ‘item’.”
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh castigated his predecessor for using objectionable words against a woman. “A person who is calling himself as Maryada Purushottom (Supreme man who practiced righteousness) is using such indecent language against a woman that too during Navaratri (the festival of goddess Durga),” Singh said.
The BJP had brought the matter to the notice of the poll panel and demanded action against Kamal Nath.
