Giriraj Singh is mentally imbalanced: Raj Babbar

PATNA: Reacting to union minister Giriraj Singh’s recent ‘white skinned’ remark over Congress president Sonia Gandhi, cine star and Congress MP Raj Babbar on Wednesday said that “Giriraj Singh is mentally imbalanced person and the union government should admit ‘such mentally sick’ minister at mental hospital either at Ranchi, Agra or Nagpur.”
Raj Babbar, who arrived here on way to Chhapra to participate in a non-political event, also offered to bear the cost of Giriraj’s treatment at the mental hospital, if the centre fails to meet the hospital’s expenses.“If the centre is not able to get him cured of his mental illness; I, being a small soldier of Congress and also as a social worker, am ready to bear the minister’s hospital expenses, ,” the actor-turned-politician said.
The Rajya Sabha member and Congress spokesperson also said that a person like Giriraj was in fact “threat to any civilised society” and wondered as to why was he being allowed to continue at the constitutionally responsible post of a union minister. “Giriraj’s remark for Sonia Gandhi was like a person spitting at the sun,” he said.
Giriraj had kicked up a row with his remarks asking whether Congress would have accepted Sonia Gandhi’s leadership had she not been white-skinned. “Had Rajiv Gandhi married a Nigerian woman and if she was not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have then accepted her leadership?,” he told journalists at Hajipur in Bihar on Tuesday.
Earlier, Babbar was accorded warm welcome by Congress leaders at the local airport on his arrival from New Delhi. Dozens of senior Congress leaders, led by BPCC’s president Ashok Choudhary and former president Anil Kumar Sharma, welcomed him at the airport by offering garland.
Babbar further assured Choudhary that he would again come to Patna on April 7 to flag off the second phase of the state Congress’ ‘Kisan Mazdoor Nyay Padyatra’ scheduled to begin from the party’s state headquarters- Sadaqat Ashram here.