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New Delhi: Sam Pitroda<\/a>, chairman of the Overseas Congress<\/a> and a close political advisor of Rahul Gandhi<\/a>, was forced to quit from his position late Tuesday evening after his description of the physical features of Indians region-wise put Congress<\/a> in an embarrassing position amid election<\/a> and exposed it to attack from the PM<\/a> and BJP<\/a> leaders.<\/p>\n

As the row escalated, Congress announced that Pitroda resigned on his own. “Mr. Sam Pitroda has decided to step down as chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress<\/a> of his own accord. The Congress president has accepted his decision,” said AICC<\/a> communication in-charge Jairam Ramesh on X.<\/p>\n

Pitroda promptly retweeted the announcement. Even as the party was making it a case of Pitroda bowing out on his own, many in Congress circles felt it was a forced exit as his remarks<\/a> made his continuation untenable for the Congress. The buzz at AICC has it that Gandhis have communicated to the Chicago-based ‘Sam’ the trouble he created with his remarks and thus the need for him to do damage-control.<\/p>\n

The latest row was sparked by his remark to media while discussing India’s status as a democratic example, Pitroda said: “We could hold together a country as diverse as India, where people on east look like Chinese, people on west look like Arab, people on north look like maybe white and people in South look like Africans. It doesn’t matter. We are all brothers and sisters.”<\/p>\n

As his racial profiling<\/a> triggered a storm, Congress first distanced itself from his views. “The analogies drawn by Mr. Sam Pitroda in a podcast to illustrate India’s diversity are most unfortunate and unacceptable. The Indian National Congress<\/a> completely dissociates itself from these analogies,” Ramesh had said earlier in the day on X.<\/p>\n

Last week, Pitroda was surfing the TRP waves by favouring the US inheritance tax system. In 2019, Congress leaders had to virtually smuggle him out of Punjab when during a campaign he said “jo ho gaya, so gaya” (whatever had happened, happened) about the 1984 anti-Sikh comments.<\/p><\/div>\n


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