New Delhi,8/5: Sam Pitroda on Wednesday resigned as Indian Overseas Congress Chairman after his remarks to depict India’s diversity triggered yet another controversy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP labelling it “racist”, even as the Congress “complete”
Before the dust settled over his remarks on ‘inheritance tax’ that the BJP used against Congress during the Lok Sabha campaign, he compared north-east people with Chinese, south with Africans, west with Arabs and north Indians with white .