On Sam Pitroda's Comeback, PM Modi

 

Congress' Sam Pitroda, who resigned as foreign wing chief ahead of the general elections, has re-entered the seat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an interview that he would return as prime minister.

"Sometimes I think that the party (Congress) is doing this in a meticulous and planned way. I don't think that they (members) are doing it on their own. Then they will be expelled from the party for a few days." "After that, they will return to the mainstream," PM Modi had said in May. "This is what they did with the guru in America. He resigned. Now he is being brought back after some time... It is their deliberate strategy to create chaos in the country, change the atmosphere, create new issues and force their opponents to respond to these issues," he told ANI.

Sam Pitroda has resigned after two consecutive remarks caused huge controversy.

In an exclusive interview with The Statesman in early May, the Congress leader had said about India, "It is a diverse country... where people from the East look like Chinese, people from the West look like Arabs and people from Western countries... The North may look like white people and the South may look like Africans." The controversy over Pitroda's earlier remarks is yet to die down, with the Congress facing problems on multiple fronts.

In April, Pitroda came under fire from the Bharatiya Janata Party for his comments on US inheritance tax. He cited inheritance tax as an example of "new measures to prevent wealth concentration" that should be debated and discussed. Congress has always helped those at the bottom of the economic pyramid, he added.

Prime Minister Modi said that if elected, Congress would redistribute people's personal wealth to "infiltrators" and would not even spare mangalsutras for women.