<p>After BJP dalit leader Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, former Congress MLA from the Sultanpur Majra Assembly segment and dalit leader Jai Kishan has kicked off a row by making abusive remark against BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders. <br /><br />At a public rally in the Kanjhwala area on Monday, Jai Kishan said BJP and AAP members are “illegitimate sons”—quite on the lines of Sadhvi Jyoti’s controversial remark. <br /><br />Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti had come under attack from the Opposition parties for using an expletive at a public rally in Dwarka earlier this month. The issue also rocked Parliament.<br /><br />Jai Kishan clarified later in the evening that his remark was distorted as he was actually referring to “people with criminal tendencies” in both the BJP and AAP. <br /><br />“At least three leaders in the BJP are accused of rape. There are leaders in the AAP who face criminal charges,” he said, after his strategy of causing a flutter and coming into the limelight had seemingly paid off.<br /><br />Not naming Jai Kishan, Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh said: “Unparliamentary language should not be used in politics.” </p>.<p>Delhi Congress chief spokesman Mukesh Sharma said he was not aware of any controversial remark by any party leader. <br /><br />“The party is not associated with any person’s personal views,” he said.<br /><br />Old controversies<br /><br />Jai Kishan, who beat his AAP rival in the 2013 Assembly polls, is not new to controversies. On the eve of Arvind Kejriwal’s swearing-in ceremony on December 28 last year, he had featured in a TV sting in which he slammed the AAP—which took Congress support to form government.<br /><br />During the first Assembly session of the Kejriwal government, he had brought a dummy razor to the House as a follow-up to his remark in the sting, that allowing AAP rule the city was like handing a lethal razor to a child. <br /></p>
<p>After BJP dalit leader Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, former Congress MLA from the Sultanpur Majra Assembly segment and dalit leader Jai Kishan has kicked off a row by making abusive remark against BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders. <br /><br />At a public rally in the Kanjhwala area on Monday, Jai Kishan said BJP and AAP members are “illegitimate sons”—quite on the lines of Sadhvi Jyoti’s controversial remark. <br /><br />Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti had come under attack from the Opposition parties for using an expletive at a public rally in Dwarka earlier this month. The issue also rocked Parliament.<br /><br />Jai Kishan clarified later in the evening that his remark was distorted as he was actually referring to “people with criminal tendencies” in both the BJP and AAP. <br /><br />“At least three leaders in the BJP are accused of rape. There are leaders in the AAP who face criminal charges,” he said, after his strategy of causing a flutter and coming into the limelight had seemingly paid off.<br /><br />Not naming Jai Kishan, Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh said: “Unparliamentary language should not be used in politics.” </p>.<p>Delhi Congress chief spokesman Mukesh Sharma said he was not aware of any controversial remark by any party leader. <br /><br />“The party is not associated with any person’s personal views,” he said.<br /><br />Old controversies<br /><br />Jai Kishan, who beat his AAP rival in the 2013 Assembly polls, is not new to controversies. On the eve of Arvind Kejriwal’s swearing-in ceremony on December 28 last year, he had featured in a TV sting in which he slammed the AAP—which took Congress support to form government.<br /><br />During the first Assembly session of the Kejriwal government, he had brought a dummy razor to the House as a follow-up to his remark in the sting, that allowing AAP rule the city was like handing a lethal razor to a child. <br /></p>
