Mumbai: BJP leader and Maharashtra state cabinet minister Pankaja Munde stoked a row with her shocking remarks against Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Deriding the Opposition for seeking proof of the “surgical strike” in Balakot, Munde said a “bomb should be attached” to the Gandhi scion and he should be sent to another country.
Munde issued the controversial statements on Sunday while campaigning for BJP state unit president Raosaheb Danve in the Jalna parliamentary seat. Danve, the incumbent MP and candidate from the constituency, was present on the dias along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
“We did surgical strike after cowardly attack on our soldiers. Some people ask what was surgical strike and what’s the evidence? I say we should’ve attached a bomb to Rahul Gandhi and should have sent him to another country. Then they would have understood,” she said.
Munde, the daughter of late BJP veteran Gopinath Munde, has emerged as one of the tallest party faces in the state. She, along with Fadnavis, was credited for the party’s best-ever performance in the Maharashtra assembly elections of 2014.
The young politician had stoked a row last week as well, while campaigning for her sister Pritam Munde in the Beed Lok Sabha seat. Drawing flak from civil society groups, she reportedly ended up saying, “This is not a Zilla Parishad, but a Lok Sabha election. Mahamanav Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar wrote the Constitution. We have to change the Constitution, bring new bills and make some change.”
