BJP on Wednesday took a quick jab at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his comment, which termed the union minister and the Rajya Sabha MP Ravneet Singh Bittu as a traitor in the demonstrations in the Parliament complex, showing the remark as an offence and an insult to the Sikh community.
The scandal actually broke out when Rahul Gandhi, who was protesting against the suspension of eight Congress MPs and the demand to discuss the unpublished memoir of former army chief General MM Naravane, confronted Bittu outside Makar Dwar. As Bittu went to meet the protesting MPs, Gandhi tried to shake his hand with him. Gandhi had a comment about Bittu when the latter had to say no: he said Here is a traitor, walking by. You will come back.
In the current ministry of Railways and Food Processing Industries is Ravneet Singh Bittu who first joined the Congress as a three-time MP before making a cross-over to the BJP just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In a retaliatory strike, Bittu cited Operation Bluestar, which was a military action at the Golden Temple of 1984, when the head of the Congress-led government was in power. He has claimed that the Congress and the Gandhi family were burning Punjab and that the Gandhis had no right to declare him a traitor.
Bittu added that during his time in Congress, they believed he was a loyal person, yet when he joined the BJP, he became a traitor. He also leveled charges against Rahul Gandhi for habitually uttering against the Army, and declared his actions arrogant and disrespectful.
Even the leaders of the BJP stepped up the assault when Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri remarked that the term traitor is not to be used hastily and related the comment to Bittu being a Sikh. According to him, it was not correct to refer to a person who wears a turban as a traitor because this is offensive to the Sikh community.
Jaiveer Shergill, former leader of Congress and a member of the BJP, also denounced Gandhi, alleging that he exhibited an anti-Sikh attitude and acted in a way that was not befitting the Leader of the Opposition.
The incident follows ongoing unrest in Parliament around the need to debate the unpublished memoir of General Naravane concerning the 2020 India-China standoff.
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