Congress workers on Thursday staged a protest outside BJP leader and union minister Giriraj Singh's residence for his controversial remarks against their party president Sonia Gandhi.
"This is the BJP's atrocity. They talk about women empowerment but insult women. The Prime Minister says 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao'. Their duplicity won't work," said a protester, Jagdish Sharma.
The Congress party, meanwhile, reiterated the demand for Singh's resignation.
"When a minister uses such language, nothing less than his resignation is acceptable," party spokesperson Shobha Oza told ANI.
Earlier on Wednesday, Singh had said his comment on Sonia Gandhi was made 'off the record' and added that it was being presented by the media in a different light.
"The things that are being shown by the media were something that was said was off the record. People say many kinds of things at home or outside. The way it was presented is a different issue. But If I have hurt anyone's sentiments including Sonia ji and Rahul ji, I regret what I said," he told ANI.
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Singh, who was sitting among a group of his supporters in Hajipur in Bihar, had jocularly asked whether Sonia's "white skin" had been her ticket to securing the top job in the Congress Party.
Stoking the controversy further, he further queried, "If Rajiv (Gandhi) had married a Nigerian, things would have been different."
Singh's comments were also deplored by the Nigerian High Commissioner to India, O B Okongor.