NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Delhi’s Kalkaji assembly constituency, Ramesh Bidhuri was slammed on by AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday over his remarks on Delhi chief minister Atishi.
In a video shared on AAP and Kejriwal’s social media handles, Bidhuri, who’s fielded against Atishi in upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, can be heard saying, “Marlena has changed her father”. “Atishi became Singh from Marlena,” Bidhuri also said.
Arvind Kejriwal strongly reacted to the statement and slammed Bidhuri and BJP. “BJP leaders have crossed all limits of shamelessness. BJP leaders are abusing Delhi Chief Minister Atishi ji,” he said.
Further, calling for ‘revenge’, he added, “The people of Delhi will not tolerate the insult of a woman Chief Minister. All the women of Delhi will take revenge for this.”
AAP also reacted to the statement on X saying, “BJP again showed its ‘anti-women face’.” “Abusive BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri used vulgar and dirty language against the woman Chief Minister @AtishiAAP. Seeing its defeat near, BJP has become so desperate that it is openly abusing women.,” they added criticising the remarks and defending Atishi.
Chief National Spokesperson for AAP Priyanka Kakkar also voiced her anger over the remarks and said, “The kind of language BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri has used for woman Chief Minister Atishi ji shows his mentality. If these people can say such things about a woman Chief Minister, then if by mistake they win, how will they behave with common women?”
This comes after Bidhuri, earlier in the day, apologised for remarks over Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi. “I assure you that just as we made the roads in Okhla and Sangam Vihar, we will make all the roads in Kalkaji like Priyanka Gandhi‘s cheeks,” he was heard saying in the purported video, which went viral on social media.
Bidhuri, expressed “regret” after a major row broke out following his comments. Talking to news agency ANI, he said: “I express regret over it and I take my words back.”
