senior Congress leader and former chief minister of the hill state, Harish Rawat(r), has called the Samajwadi Party chief’s statement “highly unfortunate and absolutely unwanted”

Caught in a bind over alliance partner Akhilesh Yadav’s “biggest infiltrator from Uttarakhand” remark, senior Congress leader and former chief minister of the hill state, Harish Rawat, has called the Samajwadi Party chief’s statement “highly unfortunate and absolutely unwanted” and accused the BJP of misusing the word ‘ghuspaithiya’ for political gain.

While the Uttarakhand unit of the Congress has maintained silence on the controversy after the BJP demanded an apology from Akhilesh, Rawat, in a post on X, said the word ‘infiltrator’ does not apply in any way to the citizens of the country, and reminded people of the shared history of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

“At the time of the division (Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in November, 2000), whichever region anyone chose as their field of work, whether it is a…