While talking to ABP News, Dimple Yadav reacted for the first time over Azam Khan’s objectionable remark which has resulted in a poll campaign ban on him by the Election Commission.
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj had mentioned Dimple Yadav and Jaya Bachchan in her tweet on Azam Khan’s remark. When asked about it, Yadav said that such language should not be used for any woman, but she also questioned Swaraj over her silence when derogatory statements were made against BSP chief Mayawati.
She said: “I believe nobody should make such remarks about women, but why did Sushma Ji not tweet when derogatory words were used against Mayawati and instead the person was made BJP’s state unit vice-president?”
Yadav was making an apparent reference to the time when BJP functionary Daya Shankar Singh had compared Mayawati to a prostitute. Expelled after an uproar, Singh was re-inducted in the party when BJP came to power. He was made the party’s state unit vice-president in Uttar Pradesh in the year 2018.
SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav also added that in Samajwadi Party women are respected.
Azam Khan was slapped Monday with a poll campaign ban, an FIR and a women commission notice for his alleged "khaki underwear" jibe at BJP leader Jaya Prada, while the saffron party mounted a sharp political attack comparing his "disgusting" comments to disrobing of Draupadi in Mahabharata.
The actor-turned-politician, who was earlier with the SP and has now been pitted by the BJP against Khan from Rampur Lok Sabha seat, demanded his immediate disqualification from contesting polls and said she had considered him a brother but he has now crossed the 'lakshman rekha'.
After examining the remarks made at an election rally on Sunday by Khan, who has often stoked controversies with his speeches, the Election Commission on Monday night imposed a nationwide ban on him from campaigning for 72 hours, beginning Tuesday.
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