India, July 28 -- Maulana Sajid Rashidi triggered a row after making controversial remark against Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav over the latter's recent visit to a mosque near the Parliament.

The cleric, Maulana Sajid Rashid, reportedly made an objectionable and misogynistic comment about Dimple Yadav who was wearing a sari at a meeting in a mosque and compared her to another woman SP MP, Iqra Hasan, who had covered her head.

Rashidi, who is the president of the All India Imam Association, made the remark during a televised debate. An FIR has also been lodged against the cleric at the Vibhuti Khand police station in Lucknow.

Following Rashidi's remarks, several MPs of the ruling NDA staged a protest in the Parliament premises against...