Gandhi said that he had already stated that “the heat of inflation would come after the elections”. (PTI Photo)

A remark made by BJP’s Gujarat unit president Jagdish Vishwakarma at a party victory celebration in Banaskantha district on Thursday regarding Congress’s lone MP from the district Geniben Thakor has evoked strong reactions from opposition leaders, who have called it “indecent” and demanded action against him.

Addressing party workers at ‘Banas Vijayotsav’ on April 30, two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won most of the local self-government bodies in the elections held on April 26, Vishwakarma commented on how “mothers and sisters” and BJP workers had “snatched the seats from your (Geniben’s) saree pallu (tamari saadi na pallav mathi bandheli seato aanchki lidhu chhe)”.

“We respect you ben, you are sister to all of us, but the way you insulted the sisters of Gujarat, of Banaskantha, and the 70 crore women of the country [by not supporting] the Nari Vandan Adhiniyam (the 106th…