RAIPUR: A day after he "snubbed" a woman during his ongoing mass contact programme, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel expressed regret for his remark saying that he would not like to speak more about it as attempts are being made by vested interests to politicize it.
Chief minister during his visit to Surajpur on Sunday was listening to people’s problems when he "snubbed" a woman who tried to share her grievance related to police rrawing flak from the social media.
He asked the woman not to politicize the matters.
The video of the incident went all over the social media and it called for criticism by the people and opposition BJP.
On Monday, former chief minister Raman Singh posted the video on his Twitter handle stating, "It’s a meeting with people misbehaving and scolding them? Instead of addressing the woman’s issue, how is it fair to speak to her like this?"
Singh reminded in his tweet that it was the public who elected Baghel as CM.
The matter escalated and other BJP leaders like Brijmohan Agrawal also objected to the incident.
Before leaving for Ambikapur tour on Tuesday morning, CM Bhupesh Baghel told reporters in Raipur, "I am sad, and I regret I shouldn’t have scolded the woman who was in distress and was trying to share her problems. But the way the video is being circulated, clearly means that the matter was being politicized."
"Has Raman Singh forgotten he had used derogatory words against our martyred leader Nandkumar Patel? There are many such occasions when he had misbehaved, has he forgotten?," asked CM.
The BJP has no issue left and they look for opportunities to defame the government, that’s a rotten attempt to save their own position, he added.
