The Kerala Congress on Saturday admitted its mistake after an attempt to connect Bihar with “Bidi” in a controversial social media post. The party later removed the post and publicly apologized. At the same time, Congress leader VT Balaram has offered to resign from the post of head of the party’s social media wing in Kerala. He faced a strong criticism for the bidi (thin cigarette or mini cigars filled with tobacco pieces) in a post about the reduction in GST rates.
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KPCC President Sunny Joseph admitted that there was a mistake while posting “Bidi and Bihar” on the social media handle of the party’s state unit and lack of caution. KPCC President Sunny Joseph admitted the mistake in an interview, saying that the party’s social media team made a mistake while publishing this comment on platform X (earlier Twitter) and lacking caution.
Sunny Joseph told a TV channel that the post has been removed. Responsible persons – the administrator of the social media handle and the person operating it has withdrawn it and apologized. The Congress does not support this. Joseph said that the matter was discussed with former MLA VT Balaram, who is in charge of KPCC’s Digital Media Cell. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress have come face to face in Bihar on Friday with a social media post. In this post, the Kerala unit of the Congress allegedly made derogatory remarks about Bihar, criticizing GST rate cuts on bidi.
On this post, Union Minister Nityanand Rai and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary, Vijay Sinha strongly condemned it, after which it was removed. In this post removed, a chart of the existing GST on cigars, cigarettes and tobacco was increased from 28 percent to 40 percent and a chart of GST cut on beedi was shown and commented, “Beedi and Bihar start with ‘Bidi and Bihar’ B ‘, which cannot be considered a sin.” The insult to the mother of the mother and now the whole Bihar is insulted-that is the real character of the Congress, which is repeatedly exposed to the country. ”
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His gesture was last week during Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’, in Darbhanga, he was allegedly used for the Prime Minister and his mother. Union Minister Nityanand Rai alleged in his statement, “Congress and RJD are attacking Bihari Asmita and Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav are the architects. However, the people of Bihar believe in patience and constitutional criteria. They will teach these parties a lesson at the right time.”