New Delhi: Congress has asked Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar to apologize for a statement given to its interim president Sonia Gandhi. The Congress has shared a part of Khattar's statement on Twitter on 14 October. In this tweet, Congress has written that "Chief Minister Khattar should apologize to all women of the country for their petty statements against Congress President Sonia Gandhi, an insult to women and anti-social thinking".

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The statement for which Congress has demanded an apology from Khattar was given by Khattar at an election rally on 13 October. According to the news agency ANI, during that time Khattar had said that "After losing the Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post of Congress President and started saying that the new president of the party should be from outside the Gandhi family." Khattar said, "We thought it was good to remove familism, but he spent 3 months wandering across the country in search of a new president." Who became president after 3 months? Sonia Gandhi.''

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After this, Khattar gave the statement, which the Congress has shared in its tweet and asked Khattar to apologize. On this matter, the President of Haryana Congress unit Kumari Selja has said, "Chief Minister, look inside yourself and see how your comments like these represent the women of Haryana and the women of the whole society."

कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी के खिलाफ अपने तुच्छ बयान, महिलाओं के अपमान और असामाजिक सोच के लिए मुख्यमंत्री खट्टर को देश की समस्त महिलाओं से माफी मांगनी चाहिए।#MaafiMaangoKhattar pic.twitter.com/zxBzeLQjqU

— Congress (@INCIndia) October 14, 2019

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