Gopinath Munde wants Khurshid sacked for 'napunsak' remark on Modi

Aurangabad: Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde today appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to sack External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid over his unsavoury remark against BJP’s PM nominee Narendra Modi. “This is new low the Congress leaders have hit during their campaign for upcoming Lok Sabha elections,” Munde told reporters while responding to a query on Khurshid’s “impotent” jibe at Modi in the context of 2002 communal riots. [caption id=“attachment_1409887” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Gopinath Munde. PTI[/caption] “Such remark is intolerable and unwarranted,” the Deputy Leader of BJP in Lok Sabha said. Khurshid is under sharp attack from BJP which accused him of using abusive language against Modi. However, the minister has stuck to his remarks, saying he did nothing wrong while describing Modi in the context of Gujarat riots. Replying to a query, Munde said NDA will not have any truck with Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) before or after Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Munde said regions of Vidarbha, Marathwada and Khandesh (north Maharashtra) are meted out injustice by the Democratic Front government. “Even though a Statutory Development Board has been established for giving equal justice (to these regions), the state government has failed to submit its report to Governor on time,” the senior BJP leader said. He said BJP would demand compensation for farmers in Vidarbha and Marathwada regions whose Rabi crop were damaged in recent hailstorm. Munde parried a question on the VHP leader Ashok Singhal’s controversial statement that Hindus should ‘produce’ at least five children. He reiterated his party’s assurance to make the state toll free if the NDA combine is voted to power in the Assembly elections. “In the NDA regime, there were only nine toll plazas in the state and now their number has gone up to 161,” Munde said. PTI