Maurya’s sexist comment on Shiela Dikshit, called ‘Rejected Maal’

TIL Desk/National/Uttar Pradesh-Former Bahujan Samaj Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya has courted controversy by making a sexist comment on Sheila Dikshit, who has been declared Congress party’s chief ministerial candidate for Uttar Pradesh 2017 polls.

Maurya, while referring to a question on Congress party’s poll prospects in UP, called Dikshit a ‘rejected maal’.

This is not the first time that senior politicians have made sexist comments against women. Just recently, expelled BJP leader Dayashankar Singh had triggered a political storm by calling BSP chief Mayawati a prostitute. BSP heavyweight and its backward castes face, Swami Prasad Maurya, had recently quit the party, saying he felt “suffocated” in it.