Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 15 -- BJP leader and Thiruvananthapuram Corporation councillor R Sreelekha has courted controversy with her remarks against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, prompting Youth Congress and Congress leaders to lodge complaints seeking action against her.
The controversy followed comments made by Sreelekha, a former Kerala Director General of Police, while addressing a BJP protest meeting organised by the party's Kollam East district committee at Punalur against the opposition's agitation over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Her remarks included a disparaging comparison of Gandhi's participation in the protest to behaviour under the influence of drugs. She also referred to 'Thandavam', associated ...