Days after Madhya Pradesh tribal minister Vijay Shah's statement against Col Sofiya Qureshi is being contested in the Supreme Court, another BJP leader and chief whip of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council, N Ravikumar, made an insulting remark at a Muslim IAS female officer during a rally.
A video emerged on Monday, May 26, showing Ravikumar allegedlly remarking that the district collector of Kalaburagi, Fauzia Taranum, “came from Pakistan.”
“The Kalaburagi DC (district collector) office has also lost its independence. The DC madam is also listening to what they [Congress] say. I don't know whether the DC has come from Pakistan or is an IAS officer here,” Ravikumar says in the video.
Taranum is a 2015 batch IAS officer, serving as deputy commissioner and district collector of Kalaburagi district. She is considered an upright officer with good credentials.
There has been no action against the BJP leader.
BJP has come under fire after its members on various occasions, deliberately made communal remarks especially targetting woman government employees of different religion.
Madhya Pradesh tribal affairs minister, Kunwar Vijay Shah, made an insulting statement on senior Indian Army officer, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, where, referring to Operation Sindoor, he said that PM Modi had sent a “sister from the same community” as those in Pakistan to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack.
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