South Delhi MP and BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri is no stranger to controversy and much of it is because of his offensive statements towards political rivals and fellow MPs as well.
Even before the communal slurs he levelled against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Danish Ali in the Lok Sabha on Thursday evening, he had been the subject of a complaint by five women Lok Sabha MPs in 2015. Then Congress MP from Supaul Ranjeet Ranjan, supported by Supriya Sule of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), then Congress MP Sushmita Dev, P.K. Shrimati Teacher of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Arpita Ghosh of the Trinamool Congress, made a complaint to then Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan about “abusive and sexist” language used by Mr. Bidhuri in the Lok Sabha.
Several of his speeches during poll campaigning, especially targeting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have created controversy, especially one in 2019, when at a meeting in Mehrauli he used some of the objectionable phrases levelled at Mr. Ali, in the presence of Union Minister Giriraj Singh. At that time Mr. Bidhuri refused admit to any wrongdoing and in fact said that he would “say this again and again”.
