Congress’s Hariprasad mocks Amit Shah’s swine flu, draws BJP ire 

BK Hariprasad. 

BK Hariprasad, a senior Congress leader, on Thursday, BJP president Amit Shah had contracted swine flu after “trying to topple the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government” in Karnataka.

Speaking at a public meeting in Bengaluru, Hariprasad, who is also a Congress Rajya Sabha member, said, “They (BJP) have kidnapped Congress MLAs and kept them in Mumbai. They are under the guard of RSS and BJP workers. Since some MLAs have come back, Amit Shah has developed fever out of fear. It is not an ordinary fever, but swine flu … If you try to destabilize the Karnataka government, then you will get not just swine flu but also dysentery and diarrhoea.”

The BJP president has been admitted to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences, since Wednesday, for treatment of swine flu.

Following the Congress MP’s remarks, senior BJP leaders hit back saying swine flu is curable but the Congress leader’s “mental illness” isn’t. They also demanded that Hariprasad be sacked from the Congress and demanded a public apology from the party.

Union minister Piyush Goyal tweeted in Hindi, “The kind of ugly and indecent comments Congress MP BK Hariprasad has made about BJP president Amit Shah’s health shows the standards of the Congress. Flu is curable, but it is difficult to cure Congress leaders’ mental illness.”

जिस तरह का गंदा और बेहूदा बयान कांग्रेस के सांसद बीके हरिप्रसाद ने भाजपा अध्यक्ष @AmitShah जी के स्वास्थ्य के लिये किया हैं, यह कांग्रेस के स्तर को दर्शाता है, फ्लू का उपचार है, लेकिन कांग्रेस के नेताओं की मानसिक बीमारी का उपचार मुश्किल है

— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) January 17, 2019

Information and broadcasting minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore also assailed Hariprasad, in a tweet, and accused the Congress leaders of “abandoning decency”:

Sad but not surprised to see Congress leaders completely abandon decency and dignity.

Such cheap statements show the frustration of Congress leadership. https://t.co/WzzFv9V5oY

— Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) January 17, 2019

Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargia called Hariprasad's remarks “inhumane”.

K Vijayvargiya,BJP on Congress' BK Hariprasad: It's indecent&inhumane. If I ask what ailment Sonia ji has,how she fell ill&why they don't tell us,it won't look good. If someone,even from other ideologies,falls ill we must sympathise&pray for him. I condemn the indecent words used pic.twitter.com/a39SyPd8h7

— ANI (@ANI) January 17, 2019

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