‘Will make roads like Hema Malini’s cheeks’: BJP targets AAP’s Delhi MLA for ‘sexist’ remark, urges Arvind Kejriwal to expel him | Delhi News
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NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday accused AAP’s Uttam Nagar MLA Naresh Balyan of making “sexist” comments and demanded his removal from the party.
BJP in Delhi attacked Balyan over his alleged “roads like Hema Malini‘s cheeks” remark and demanded that AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal should expel the legislator for disrespecting women. Actor-turned-politician Malini, a senior BJP leader, is a Lok Sabha MP from Mathura.
The BJP was reacting to a video clip that has surfaced on social media in which the MLA is heard purportedly saying, “All works will be completed swiftly by the 35th of the month, will make Uttam Nagar’s roads like Hema Malini’s cheeks.”
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor called AAP an “antiwomen party”. He charged that Balyan has not only disrespected women but has also humiliated the people of the area by saying that roads will be repaired by the “35th” of the month.
“They are inspired by former Bihar chief minister Lalu Yadav in disrespecting women,” he said.
“It seems that Arvind Kejriwal has created a calendar with 35 days in a month,” Kapoor said.
The people of Delhi expect Arvind Kejriwal and chief minister Atishi to take note of the “indecent comment” by their MLA Naresh Balyan and expel him from the Aam Aadmi Party, he demanded.
TOI could not verify the veracity of the video. Balyan couldn’t be contacted. AAP didn’t react.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal also asked party national convener Arvind Kejriwal to take action against Balyan.
