BJP Leader Sanjay Mayukh Slams Congress Over Bihar Remarks, Calls Rahul Gandhi’s Statement “Insulting”

Singhar, while speaking during a party event, said that adivasis should take pride in their tribal identity and not as Hindus. The remark led to a major controversy, with the BJP attacking the Congress over the “shameful” remark.

“I say with pride that we are Adivasis, not Hindus. I have been saying this for many years. And it was Shabari, who fed the leftovers to Lord Ram; she too was an Adivasi,” Singhar said on Wednesday while addressing the meeting and felicitation ceremony of the Madhya Pradesh Adivasi Vikas Parishad at a local District Congress office.

“Jo adikaal se vaas kar rahe hain vo adivasi hai,” he said during his speech, which loosely translates to “those who have been living since ancient times are adivasis (tribals).”