'Those who abuse PM Modi have no right to take it': Rajasthan BJP leader refuses to give blankets to Muslim women

BJP leader and former MP from Rajasthan's Tonk Sawai Madhopur, Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria, has been facing flak after a video of him refusing to give blankets to Muslim women surfaced online.

In a video, Singh, who was MP from 2014 to 2024, was purportedly heard saying that the women who abuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi have no right to blankets during a blanket distribution programme in the Tonk district. He also stated that the event was not linked to any government scheme, and was his personal programme.

As the video went viral, Tikaram Jully, the Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly claimed that former BJP MP Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria insulted a Muslim woman.

Citing an alleged video of the incident, Jully claimed that the former MP distributed blankets in the Kareda village of Niwai tehsil and withdrew one from a woman after learning her name.

"A former MP asking a poor woman her religion and then taking back the blanket is highly condemnable," Jully said, stating discrimination.

According to local residents, the incident took place at a blanket distribution event on Sunday afternoon. Some people present there alleged that blankets were initially given to women but later taken back after their religious identities were known.

The former MP had gone to invite people for PM Modi's proposed visit to Ajmer on February 28.