Jharkhand Congress party's Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister Mannan Mallik told reporters in Dhanbad that BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, now seeking iron scrap from the people for the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel statue, will one day seek a wife from the common people, creating a political row".
He said, "Earlier, the BJP were seeking bricks (to build the temple in Ayodhya). Now Modi is seeking iron (for the Patel statue). Later, he will seek gold, and a time will come when he will seek a wife from the people. Modi is a 'bewa' (widower)," .
BJP state president Rabindra Rai has demanded the immediate removal of the minister, when he said,"The minister is mentally sick and Chief Minister Hemant Soren should remove him from the cabinet. How can a mentally sick person work as minister ."
The Jharkhand Congress has also disowned the statement made by their party member, when their spokesperson Shailesh Sinha said,"We have come to know about the statement. We disown the minister's statement and there is no place for such language in politics ."
INDIA HONEST observes this is something like one sign of growing popularity of Narendra Modi, when the opposition small or big, all are rigorously gets engaged in criticising him. This is the confirmation that they are seriously afraid that Modi may dislodge them in next election, and this increasing frustration is making the loose their temper and civil sense.
That is what is happening with many more, including Kumar Biswas of AAP, Kapil Sibal, Jairam Ramesh or the old blaster Dig sir and Rashid Alvi of Congress. But what Mannan Mallik of Jharkhand Congress uttered, has crossed all the limit of Indian values and culture, as such utterance has abused the whole women folk of India. Yes it was the result of huge success of Modi's "Vijay Sankalp" rally in Ranchi this Sunday that Ranchi rally has caused mental disorder in the minister.