Karnataka Congress Minister Dinesh Gundu’s wife Tabu Rao on Monday, 28 January, criticised Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde for his remarks about her husband “running behind a Muslim lady.”
“Such misogynistic and provocative remarks are highly unbecoming of a union minister,” she wrote on Twitter. Tabu Rao also asked Hegde to challenge her husband politically instead of “hiding behind a housewife’s saree and throwing stones.”
On Monday 28 January, Hegde had hit back at Dinesh Gundu Rao when the Congress leader questioned the Union minister’s achievements. “I shall definitely answer this guy @dineshgrao's queries, before which could he please reveal himself as to who he is along with his achievements? I only know him as a guy who ran behind a Muslim lady,” the Union minister had said.
Hegde had stirred controversy on Sunday, 27 January, when he said at a public event that any hand that touches a Hindu girl "should not exist.”
Tabu Rao also wrote on Twitter that it was common for BJP leaders to drag her into debates when they were unable to “politically” take on her husband. She added that she is a proud Indian and that the Constitution of India guarantees every individual “liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship.”
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