Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat called Congress MLAs ‘eunuch' and ‘impotent men' while saying that UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal should be thrown into the Arabian sea.
Shekhawat, referring to Dhariwal's insensitive comment in assembly over rising rape cases in the state, lambasted the minister and entire Congress MLAs present in the assembly that time.
Dhariwal in March last year had courted controversy when he had linked “masculinity” with rapes while commenting on rise in rape cases.
“Rajasthan Mardon ka Pradesh hai,” Dhariwal had said.
Shekhawat said that when Dhariwal insulted Rajasthan through his comments in the Assembly, Congress MLAs laughed and clapped like “impotent men” and “eunuchs”.
Shekhawat, while addressing a public meeting in Bikaner in Sunday, said that Rajasthan is indeed a “state of men” and its “masculinity” kept Hinduism and Sanatan Dharma alive. But he described Dhariwal's comment as a blot on that “masculinity”.
“Certainly Rajasthan is a state of men. Because of the masculinity of Rajasthan, Hinduism and Sanatan Dharma are alive in India today. If Prithviraj Chauhan, Bappa Rawal, Rana Sanga, Veer Durgadas, Rao Chandra Sen, Maharana Pratap had not been born in Rajasthan, then today our name would have been something else,” he said.
Shekhawat said that the Gehlot government is dark spot on the masculinity of Rajasthan.
“It is unfortunate that even today he (Dhariwal) is a part of the cabinet. He is still a minister. He should be thrown out, thrown into the Arabian sea,” Shekhawat said.
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