Uttar Pradesh Tourism Minister Om Prakash Singh on Thursday triggered outrage after he took a dig at former chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati while addressing his party workers in Ghazipur.
The minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government allegedly called Mayawati 'ugly', launching a personal attack on her at a gathering in his constituency.
"If you can bear an ugly woman like Mayawati for five years then you won't have a problem tolerating our party leaders for half an hour or so," Singh was seen saying in a video posted by Times Now news channel.
Mayawati herself is known for making poignant comment against her main political adversary Mulayam Singh Yadav.
During the 2012 election campaign, she created a controversy when she allegedly called her opponents ‘dog’ in a rally.
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