Gorkhas in Himachal Pradesh today threatened to launch a nationwide agitation if the state BJP MLA Ravinder Ravi does not tender public apology for his "derogatory" remarks against the community.
"If Ravi does not tender public apology for his statement within a week, we will launch a nationwide agitation," Punjab and Himachal Gorkha Community president Bhupinder Singh Gurung said here.
Ravi, a former Himachal Pradesh minister and BJP MLA from Dehra constituency of Kangra district, had offered an "unusual" solution to tackle menace of monkeys and stray dogs - deploying Naga and Gorkha regiments in the state from time to time.
Moving a resolution in the Assembly on the menace of stray animals, the BJP lawmaker on April 5 had said, "If Gorkha regiment or Naga regiment is posted in different cantonments of the state from time to time, the population of monkeys would decline with passage of time."
The former Irrigation and Public Health Minister also said some of the delicacies from the region to which these contingents belong are based on the meat of these animals.
