Nueva Delhi: Remember this publication in X for the leader of Congress Jairam Ramesh June 26, 2024: “During the recent electoral campaign Sam Pitroda He had made some statements and comments that were totally unacceptable for the Indian National Congress. By mutual consent, he resigned as president of the Indian Overseas Congress. Subsequently, he clarified the context in which statements were made and how they were distorted by the Modi campaign. The president of the Congress has again appointed him with the assurance that in future he will not leave room for such controversies to arise. “
The Congress spokesman had taken this clarification to justify/announce the reinstatement of Sam Pitroda of “Hua to Hua” E “Indians of the South as Africans” as the president of the Indian Congress of the Olso. This was almost one and a half months after Pitroda was withdrawn from the position after two controversial statements made during the 2024 Lok Sabha campaign, first about the inheritance tax and then on the racial profile.
Well, 8 months later, Pitroda forgot the security he gave to Congress and created a new room for another controversy to embarrass Congress. This time his comments were about China.
“I don’t know what China’s threat is. I think this problem is often detached because the United States has the habit of defining an enemy. I think the time has come for us to all learn, increase communication, collaborate, operate and cook and cook and Do not have this command and control mentality.
As expected, his comments gave BJP the opportunity to attack the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi. BJP’s national spokesman and deputy, Sudhanshu Trivedi, said that Pitrod unemployment.
What Pitroda has said is a severe blow to the prestige, diplomacy and sovereignty of India, said the BJP parliamentarian, accusing the veteran congress that works as if it were India, which is the aggressor in the conflict with China .
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Pushed to the corner once again, the Congress, which has learned the art of “distance” from most Pitroda’s comments, hastened to do it again. Then, we made Jairam Ramesh take X again to issue another denial of Pitroda’s comments. “According to reports, the opinions expressed by Mr. Sam Pitroda in China are definitely not the opinions of the Indian National Congress,” Jairam said.
“China remains our most important foreign policy, external security and economic challenge. The INC has raised questions repeatedly about the approach of the Government of Modi to China, including the public Pirctor Clean Clean on June 19, 2020. Our most recent statement on China was on January 28, 2025, “he added.
The leader of the Congress added a statement made by him on January 28 addressed to the Modi government about China and questioned the disconnection agreement of October 21, 2024.
Pitroda has put Congress on the dock several times in the past. Here is a look at some of their past statements that have been ashamed of the party:
About the inheritance tax
In the mid -2024 Lok Sabha campaign, Pitroda supported the idea of an inheritance tax and cited the example of the United States. “There is nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, but to what extent? Let me tell you that in the United States there is an inheritance tax. So, if we say that one has a richness worth $ 100 million, and when he dies he can transfer Probably 45% to their children, 55% are caught by the government.
‘South people look like Africans’
Pitroda made a second comment during the course of the 2024 LS campaign. “We are a brilliant example of democracy in the world … we could keep together with a country as diverse as India, where people in the east look like the Chinese, people in the west look similarly Arab, people in the north They look perhaps white and people in the south look like Africa.
In Ram Mandir
In June 2023, when the country was waiting for the opening of Grand Ram Mandir, Pitrod India. “No one talks about these things. But everyone talks about Ram, Hanuman and Mandir. I have said that temples will not create jobs,” he said.
In 1984 anti-sikh disturbances
In May 2019, Pitroda “Hua to Hua” (and what) when asked about the 1984 anti-sikh disturbances. “Ab Kya Hai ’84 Ka? Aapne Kya Kiya 5 Saal Mein, Uski Baat Kariye. ’84 Mein Mein Hua to Hua.
In the pulwama attack
In February 2019, Pitroda raised a storm when he raised questions about Balakot’s air attacks by the Indian Air Force that were carried out in retaliation to pulwama attacks. “I don’t know much about attacks. It happens all the time. The attack occurred in Mumbai too. We could have reacted and just sent our planes, but that is not the right approach. According to me, it is not so you deal with the world,” said pitroda.
Nehru vs Ambedkar in the Constitution
Citing an article from Sudheendra Kulkarni, a former close assistant of the veteran of BJP LK Advani, Pitorda in a position on social networks said that the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, contributed more than Br ambedkar in the framed of the constitution. Pitroda then eliminated the post.
In Nyay’s scheme
Pitroda put the Congress party in a difficult place in April 2019 when he said that the middle class should not be selfish. They should be prepared to disburse more taxes to finance the NYAY proposed by the party, a scheme that promises a minimum guaranteed income for each poor home, he said.
Clearly, Sam Pitroda, who is perceived near the Gandhis by virtue of being a very close associate of the former prime minister, the late Rajiv Gandhi, has an inclination to court controversies, for the discomfort of the congress. But Pitroda could do well to avoid talking about sensitive issues such as China, in which the party is already under attack for repeated comments made by Rahul Gandhi, the last is his criticism of government drone policy in a video using what appeared Like Chinese drones.
Rahul’s video evoked a strong reaction from the president of the Drones Federation of India, Shah, who said it is quite uncomfortable for him and the community to see someone with a significant responsibility to say that no one understands drone technology in the India.
“When someone with significant responsibility assumes a Chinese drone and belittles the entire industry, so young people like me have to talk. There are more than 400 companies in our country and between 40 and 50 companies of drones components that work very hard to deal with To deal with all these challenges, “said Samit Shah.
“And then, someone whose personality is followed by at least some section of society and occupies a Chinese drone and says that we do not understand anything in India and that none of these parts is done in India. Therefore, it is quite discouraging ” Added. That explains why Pitroda’s comments on China give BJP the opportunity to say that it represents the official mentality of the Congress party.
For now, Congress would do well to remind Pitroda about his promise made in June 2024 and the hope that the repeat offender does not do it again.