BJP’s Shehzad Poonawalla Criticizes Congress for Reappointing Sam Pitroda

New Delhi, June 27: A day after Sam Pitroda was reappointed as the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla launched a strong attack against the Congress party. He accused them of keeping a distance from Sam Pitroda during the Lok Sabha elections to deceive the public.

Poonawalla said, “The first thing Rahul Gandhi did as soon as he became the leader of the opposition was to become the leader of hypocrisy and opportunism. The cosmetic distance that the Congress party had made from Sam Pitroda during the elections was only a pretence, a lie, to deceive the public.”

He also called Rahul Gandhi “Uncle Sam’s reckless chela (student)” and emphasized that the Congress party does not ideologically differ from Sam Pitroda. Poonawalla added that Pitroda has not accepted that his statement was racist in any way.

“In reality, the Congress party agrees with everything Uncle Sam says. Uncle Sam Pitroda has not expressed any regret over his racist remark and the Congress party agrees with these things,” he said.

Earlier, the AICC announced that the Congress President had reappointed Sam Pitroda to the position with immediate effect. Pitroda had resigned in May amid controversies over his remarks about the appearance of Indians. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh informed about Pitroda’s decision to step down through a post on X.

In an interview, Pitroda had said, “We have survived 75 years in a very happy environment where people could live together, leaving aside a few fights here and there. We could hold a country together as diverse as India, where people in the East look like Chinese, people in the West look like Arabs, people in the North look like whites, and maybe people in the South look like Africans.”