Racist remarks on Sonia Gandhi: Did Giriraj Singh break down before Narendra Modi?

New Delhi: Union minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday denied media reports of him meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his racist remarks on Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

“I had no meeting with the PM and who said I cried? Who saw?” Singh was quoted as saying to ANI.

According to reports, Singh had broken down after PM Modi pulled him up for the controversial remarks.

The minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises was under fire for his racist barb at Gandhi. He had kicked up a row recently by asking whether Congress would have accepted Sonia Gandhi's leadership had she not been white-skinned.

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"Had Rajiv Gandhi married a Nigerian woman and if she was not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have then accepted her (Sonia's) leadership," he had told journalists recently.

Earlier on Monday, Congress raked up the issue in the Parliament, forcing the senior BJP leader to apologise.

As soon as the House met for the day, Congress members brought up Singh's remarks against Gandhi, terming it as an attack on womanhood.

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Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said BJP MPs and ministers have continuously been making unwarranted and irresponsible statements. Such remarks create fissures in the society and hurt harmony, he said.

At one point of time, Kharge got offended when his mike was switched off. "Whenever I speak, the mike is switched off... I have to protest," he said.