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The BJP slammed Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) for calling Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu a traitor and said the full Sikh assemblage is anguished implicit his remarks.
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Addressing a property league astatine the BJP headquarters, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri alleged that Mr. Gandhi called Mr. Bittu a traitor simply due to the fact that the second had discontinue the Congress.
"This word, traitor, tin not beryllium taken lightly. The connection is utilized for idiosyncratic who has betrayed his country. This is simply a precise delicate contented for the Sikh community," Mr. Puri said, "Ravneet Singh Bittu is not conscionable an MP elected from Ludhiana, helium is not conscionable a subordinate of a Sikh household that has served the country, his grandfather, Sardar Beant Singh, who was the Chief Minister of Punjab, fell to an assassin's bullet. And you telephone him a traitor. This is unacceptable," the elder Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person added.
Slamming Mr. Gandhi for his remarks, BJP person Arvinder Singh Lovely said the full Sikh assemblage is highly anguished implicit the Congress person calling Mr. Bittu a traitor.
"It is unfortunate," Mr. Lovely said.
Mr. Gandhi exchanged barbs with erstwhile enactment workfellow Mr. Bittu successful the Parliament House analyzable connected Wednesday.
In videos released by the Congress, the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha was heard calling Bittu a "traitor" and the Minister retorting with the "desh ke dushman" (enemy of the nation) jibe.
