Nov 01, 2024 03:05 PM IST
Arvind Sawant also targeted Shaina NC for having been in the BJP all her life’ but joining CM Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena to contest the Maharashtra polls.
In yet another instance of a male politician using derogatory language for a female leader, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Arvind Sawant called former BJP leader Shaina NC an ‘imported maal’ on Friday.
Shaina NC will contest the upcoming Maharashtra assembly polls as the Mumbadevi candidate of chief minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP.
“Look at her condition. She was in the BJP all her life and now has gone to another party. ‘Imported maal’ does not work here, only ‘original maal’ works here,” Sawant told ANI.
Sawant later accused Shaina NC and leaders of the ruling Mahayuti (BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP) coalition of attempting to set a ‘fake narrative’ against him.
“They are twisting my statement. What I said was Amin Patel is a local and she is an outsider so this ‘imported maal’ will not be accepted in the Mumbadevi constituency,” he said.
Patel, the sitting Congress MLA from Mumbadevi who has been winning the seat since 2014, is the candidate of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of Sena (UBT), Congress and NCP (SP).
Hitting back, Shaina NC remarked Sawant’s statement was a ‘reflection of his mentality’ and people of Mumbadevi would ‘teach’ him and his party a ‘lesson.’
“Does he think every woman of Mumbadevi is a ‘maal’? You don’t respect a woman. You use such words for a capable woman who is in politics. Now you will be ‘behaal’ (ruined). You (Sawant) will have to apologise at Nagpada police station’ she told ANI.
Maharashtra will vote in a single phase on November 20. The counting of votes for all 288 assembly seats will be held on November 23.
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