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LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh police have booked senior Congress chief and birthday party’s provincial president Ajay Rai over his ‘misogynistic’ commentary towards Union Minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani.
Rai was once booked at the foundation of a grievance filed via BJP ladies’s wing chief Pushpa Singh on the Robertsganj police station in Sonbhadra district on Tuesday.
The raging controversy comes after the Uttar Pradesh Congress chief, on Monday, took a jibe at Smriti Irani, announcing she simplest involves her constituency to turn “latke-jhatke” (for pomp and display) and the true paintings was once finished when Amethi had an MP from Gandhi circle of relatives.
The FIR towards Rai was once lodged underneath Sections 354(a) (making sexually colored remarks), 501 (printing or engraving topic recognized to be defamatory) and 509 (phrase, gesture or act meant to insult the modesty of a girl) of IPC.
On the other hand, Rai stood company in his observation and refused to increase an apology announcing that he didn’t use unparliamentary language towards Irani.
“Why will have to I apologise? I didn’t use any unparliamentary language. ‘Latke-jhatke’ is our ‘bolchal ki bhasha’ (colloquial slang) which means that that someone unexpectedly seems and says one thing after which disappears,” mentioned Rai whilst speaking to media individuals in Chandauli district, including that he had no goal to insult any individual.
“Some persons are unnecessarily seeking to exert force on me. I didn’t intend to insult any individual with the phrase Latke-Jhatke. I’ve at all times revered ladies and can proceed to take action,” mentioned Rai whilst reiterating his declare that the birthday party’s Waynad MP Rahul Gandhi would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Amethi.
“The folk of Amethi were given overawed via the latke-jhatke, in order that they elected anyone as opposed to Rahul in 2019, however now they’ve realised and need Rahul Gandhi again,” he claimed.
The Congress chief went a step additional announcing he himself was once in a position to problem PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi in 2024. “PM Modi has no longer finished this kind of paintings in Varanasi that the general public will re-elect him in 2024. My vote proportion has higher considerably within the ultimate election, so consider what is going to occur in 2024,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, the Nationwide Fee for Ladies took cognisance of Rai’s remarks and summoned him to seem at a listening to scheduled for December 28.
“The Fee has taken cognisance of the misogynistic commentary made via Ajay Rai. The remarks are outrageous and intensely derogatory and the Fee strongly condemns such statements,” the NCW mentioned in a observation.
Rai’s arguable observation additionally evoked a pointy reaction from Smriti Irani who accused the Congress of misogyny and took potshots at Rahul and Sonia Gandhi on Twitter.
Irani tweeted, “Heard that Rahul Gandhi has were given the announcement on his Amethi contest made by way of a birthday party chief. I’m hoping you are going to no longer run to contest any other seat, and would possibly not get scared. PS: You & Mummy ji want to get your misogynistic goons a brand new speechwriter.”
सुना है @RahulGandhi जी आपने अपने किसी प्रांतीय नेता से अभद्र तरीके से 2024 में अमेठी से लड़ने की घोषणा करवाई है।
तो क्या आपका अमेठी से लड़ना पक्का समझूँ? दूसरी सीट पर तो नहीं भागेंगे? डरेंगे तो नहीं???
PS: You & Mummy ji want to get your mysoginistic goons a brand new speechwriter.
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) December 19, 2022
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh police have booked senior Congress chief and birthday party’s provincial president Ajay Rai over his ‘misogynistic’ commentary towards Union Minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani.
Rai was once booked at the foundation of a grievance filed via BJP ladies’s wing chief Pushpa Singh on the Robertsganj police station in Sonbhadra district on Tuesday.
The raging controversy comes after the Uttar Pradesh Congress chief, on Monday, took a jibe at Smriti Irani, announcing she simplest involves her constituency to turn “latke-jhatke” (for pomp and display) and the true paintings was once finished when Amethi had an MP from Gandhi circle of relatives.
The FIR towards Rai was once lodged underneath Sections 354(a) (making sexually colored remarks), 501 (printing or engraving topic recognized to be defamatory) and 509 (phrase, gesture or act meant to insult the modesty of a girl) of IPC.
On the other hand, Rai stood company in his observation and refused to increase an apology announcing that he didn’t use unparliamentary language towards Irani.
“Why will have to I apologise? I didn’t use any unparliamentary language. ‘Latke-jhatke’ is our ‘bolchal ki bhasha’ (colloquial slang) which means that that someone unexpectedly seems and says one thing after which disappears,” mentioned Rai whilst speaking to media individuals in Chandauli district, including that he had no goal to insult any individual.
“Some persons are unnecessarily seeking to exert force on me. I didn’t intend to insult any individual with the phrase Latke-Jhatke. I’ve at all times revered ladies and can proceed to take action,” mentioned Rai whilst reiterating his declare that the birthday party’s Waynad MP Rahul Gandhi would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Amethi.
“The folk of Amethi were given overawed via the latke-jhatke, in order that they elected anyone as opposed to Rahul in 2019, however now they’ve realised and need Rahul Gandhi again,” he claimed.
The Congress chief went a step additional announcing he himself was once in a position to problem PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi in 2024. “PM Modi has no longer finished this kind of paintings in Varanasi that the general public will re-elect him in 2024. My vote proportion has higher considerably within the ultimate election, so consider what is going to occur in 2024,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, the Nationwide Fee for Ladies took cognisance of Rai’s remarks and summoned him to seem at a listening to scheduled for December 28.
“The Fee has taken cognisance of the misogynistic commentary made via Ajay Rai. The remarks are outrageous and intensely derogatory and the Fee strongly condemns such statements,” the NCW mentioned in a observation.
Rai’s arguable observation additionally evoked a pointy reaction from Smriti Irani who accused the Congress of misogyny and took potshots at Rahul and Sonia Gandhi on Twitter.
Irani tweeted, “Heard that Rahul Gandhi has were given the announcement on his Amethi contest made by way of a birthday party chief. I’m hoping you are going to no longer run to contest any other seat, and would possibly not get scared. PS: You & Mummy ji want to get your misogynistic goons a brand new speechwriter.”
सुना है @RahulGandhi जी आपने अपने किसी प्रांतीय नेता से अभद्र तरीके से 2024 में अमेठी से लड़ने की घोषणा करवाई है।
तो क्या आपका अमेठी से लड़ना पक्का समझूँ? दूसरी सीट पर तो नहीं भागेंगे? डरेंगे तो नहीं???
PS: You & Mummy ji want to get your mysoginistic goons a brand new speechwriter.
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) December 19, 2022