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PM Modi warns BJP lawmakers not to speak out of turn, minister seeks apology

by IBNS 01 Dec 2014, 10:50 pm

New Delhi, Dec 2 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday warned all Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers not to address the nation out of turn. The PM also categorically made it clear that he would not compromise on that

“Do not address the nation out of turn. I will not compromise on this,” Modi said. 

His statement came in the wake of Union minister of state for food processing Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti’s abusive remarks during a campaigning in Delhi on Monday.

Criticizing Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the issue of her son-in-law Robert Vadra’s controversial land deals, Jyoti said: “You have to decide. Do you want a government of Ramzaadon (followers of Ram) or (those who are illegitimate)?”

Jyoti had debuted in the general elections held in May this year and won from Uttar Pradesh. She is one of the six BJP MPs in-charge the party’s campaign for the Delhi polls scheduled early next year

“The son of an ordinary family, who sold utensils, Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, how did this man become a millionaire? They robbed the poor,” she said.

When reporters asked her about her abusive remarks, the minister said: “What else do you call people who loot the nation...those who steal from the people and stash it in foreign banks? You tell me what we should call them.”

Shortly after PM Modi’s unequivocal warning, the union minister also sought apology in Parliament on Tuesday for using abusive language at a public meeting in Delhi.