Meerut: In yet another deplorable incident of sexist and misogynist jibes at women, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader on Tuesday passed a snide remark and took a low dig at Priyanka Gandhi based on her attire and the kind of clothes she chooses to wear. Speaking at a public gathering in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, Jayakaran Gupta took a veiled jibe at the Congress general secretary for eastern UP and said that she just knows to ask whether ‘achhe din’ (good days) has come in the country.

Gupta said “Congress ke ek neta toh badi jor-jor bolte hain, acche din aaye? acche din aaye? Unhe acche din dikhayi nahi dete. Arey skirt waali bai saari pehenkar mandir mein shish lagane lagi, gangajal se parhej karne waale log gangajal ka acchman karne lage (One Congress leader has been raising a lot of noise asking whether good days have come in India. They can’t see the good days. The lady who used to wear skirts is now wearing saaris and going to temples for worship, the one who used to stay away from Gangajal is now consuming the holy water),”.

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He later clarified his statement but hasn't apologised for making a sexist remark. Rather, he stood by his deplorable statement but said it was not directed at anyone. Gupta said, according to news agency  “I’ve not made a comment at anyone. I had said 'skirt waali bai jinko mandir jaane se parhez tha woh saree pehenkar mandir-mandir ja rahi hain'. Many people are doing that. Now, you need to see who fits under that description,”. This isn’t the first time a political leader has taken potshots at Gandhi for her looks. Last week, Shia Waqf board chief Wasim Rizvi made a deplorable statement against her and said that given her “pretty face”, she should not be in politics.

Rizvi has said “Priyanka ji is pretty. There was no need for her to enter politics. If she had come earlier, then we would have offered her to play the role of the daughter-in-law of Zafar Khan in our movie ‘Ram Janmabhoomi’,”. In a similar incident, barely a few days after actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, a former colleague of hers from the Samajwadi Party passed snide remarks on her, calling her a ‘dancer who will enthral people’.

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Samajwadi Party chief of Sambhal district, Firoz Khan, had said  “When there was a traffic jam, I stepped out of my car to have a look at her. Who knows, she would have even danced a few steps to clear out the traffic... Now, evenings in Rampur will now get colourful,”, referring to her candidature for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in which she is contesting on behalf of the BJP from the Rampur constituency.