BJP’s MP Rajveer Singh on Saturday took a controversial jibe at Rahul Gandhi and said that the Congress president would have known the importance of building toilets if his grandmother (Indira Gandhi) and mother (Sonia Gandhi) had faced the problem of open defecation. Singh, who is sitting MP from Etah and son of former Uttar Pradesh's chief minister Kalyan Singh, made the statement while addressing a public gathering in UP’s Mahoba on Sunday.

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“Congress keh rahi hai shauchalay ki baat kar rahe hain, bada chhota dimag hai. Rahul ji agar tumhari dadi aur tumhari amma khet mein lota leke gayi hoti to malum pad jata. (Congress is saying that we are talking about toilets, we have a very small mindset.  Had Rahul ji’s mother and grandmother gone to some open field to relieve themselves, then he would have known the importance of it),” the BJP MP said.

His statement has not come as a surprise amid a raging word’s war between political leaders in the run-up to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The BJP MP’s statement has not come as a surprise amid a raging war of words between political leaders in the run-up to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. In the light of the general elections, several political leaders have been spewing venom against their rivals.

Recently, Samajwadi candidate from Rampur Azam Khan sparked a controversy by making outrageous statements against his BJP candidate Jaya Prada. "I brought her to Rampur. You are a witness that I did not allow anyone to touch her body. It took you 17 years to identify her real face but I got to know in 17 days that she wears khaki underwear," Khan had said.

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