With just days remaining for the Tarn Taran Assembly byelection in Punjab, the Indian National Congress (INC) appears to have landed in controversy after State president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring allegedly made a remark about the skin colour of the late Buta Singh, a former Union Home Minister from the Scheduled Caste community.
Mr. Warring has tendered an “unconditional apology”, but the electoral damage may already have been inflicted as Opposition parties have accused the Congress of showing “disrespect” towards Dalits ahead of the November 11 byelection.
An eight-time Lo
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