Khushbu Sundar, who joined the BJP on Monday, called Congress a “mentally retarded” party, saying she “understood” this only after quitting it.
Khushbu Sundar called Congress ‘mentally retarded’ after joining BJP (Photo: PTI)
Khushbu Sundar, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday after quitting the Congress, said she has exited a “mentally retarded” party. After landing in Chennai, Khushbu Sundar was speaking to the media when she called the Congress a “mentally retarded” party.
Khushbu Sundar was responding to the remarks made by Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) President KS Alagiri that her resignation would not affect the party.
Speaking to India Today TV after Khushbu Sundar resigned from the primary membership of the Congress, KS Alagiri said it won’t affect the party and also alleged that the actor-turned-politician did not work according to party lines.
KS Alagiri had said, “Khushbu Sundar leaving the party is of no consequence to the party. Nobody from the BJP invited her to the party. She is joining on her own accord.” He added Khushbu Sundar, while in the party, didn’t work according to the party lines.”
Amid a grand welcome from the BJP in Chennai, Khushbu Sundar said, “I have been in Congress for six years and I have worked very hard for the party. After I quit the party, I can understand that I have exited a mentally retarded party.”
Khushbu Sundar calling Congress a “mentally retarded” party, however, did not go down well with a disability activist who slammed the BJP leader for her “insensitive” remark.
Disability activist Deepaknathan slammed Khushbu Sundar for denigrating psychosocial disabilities while criticising the Congress.
“Equating the Congress to that of the underdeveloped brain is denigrating disability. Why do you compare? Are we not equals?” Deepaknathan asked.