BJP leader Khushbu Sundar on Friday questioned the silence of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on a remark by a functionary of his party, the DMK, against her, demanding that he be sacked.
“I would like to see my Chief Minister (MK Stalin) stand up for me. Why is he silent?” Ms Sundar told NDTV, amid a snowballing controversy over a comment by DMK functionary Saidai Sidiq.
The BJP leader said she plans to press charges against the leader. “I will go wherever I have to go. I will file a complaint and fight for my dignity and respect,” she said.
Asked about sexist remarks by leaders in her own party – specifically the instance of the Maharashtra BJP chief telling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule to “leave politics and work in the kitchen” – Ms Sundar said she had called out those remarks too.
“I did stand up for Supriya, but there is a lot of difference between a misogynist remark and the kind of the remark the DMK leader made at a public platform. He said Khushbu Sundar is easily available. He called me a whore,” she said.
“All I would like to ask my Chief Minister is if someone from my party had spoken like this, would my Chief Minister still be silent?” Ms Sundar said.
