Congress leader Manish Tewari  |  Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: Congress MP from Punjab Manish Tewari on Wednesday took exception to party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s remarks on “turban”.
During a poll campaign on Tuesday, Gandhi had said that merely wearing a turban on stage, doesn’t make anyone ‘Sardar’ (Sikh), in an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.
Responding to her comment, Tewari said, “Turban is the pride of Punjab and there should be no politics over wearing it.”
Tewari, one of the prominent members of the ‘G-23’ group who had in August 2020 written to the party chief Sonia Gandhi seeking an organisational overhaul, has been openly criticising his party over the internal fissures in the party’s Punjab unit.
The Congress party recently dropped Tewari from the list of star campaigners for the February 20 Assembly polls in Punjab.
In a tweet, Tewari slammed his party, “I would have been pleasantly surprised if it would have been the other way around. The reasons are also no state secret.”
The Congress leader had also said that he would have been “pleasantly surprised” if it would have been the other way around.
“The reasons are also no state secret,” he added.
