Congress president Kharge slams Vice President Dhankhar for linking caste to mimicry incident

Wednesday, 20 December 2023
Lashing out at Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar for linking caste to the incident of mimicry, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge told the vice president that he is always denied the opportunity to speak in the Upper House, and if he should then claim that Dalits are being shut out of Parliament, underlining that “Dalits were always denied the opportunity”. He advised that the chairman should not try to incite people by talking about caste in the House. Kharge was responding to Dhankhar’s claim that he was mimicked because he belongs to the Jat community.

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