Congress MP’s ‘lipstick’ joke about wife during her poll campaign slammed by BJP

The BJP has slammed Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring’s “my wife goes out all dressed up with a bindi and lipstick” comment, calling it sexist and anti-women. The BJP also demanded an apology from the Ludhiana MP.
On Wednesday, November 6, while campaigning for his wife Amrita Warring for the upcoming Gidderbaha bypoll, Raja Warring sparked a controverys by saying, “She goes out at 6 am wearing lipstick and a bindi and returns at 11 pm. She is of no use to me. She has gone out of my hands, find someone else for me.”
“After the polls, she will also attend weddings and funerals. Please ensure a win in the bypolls, so that she starts respecting me, knowing that she won the election because of her husband,” the Lok Sabha MP said.

Amrita is the Congress candidate for the Gidderbaha Assembly constituency, which fell vacant after Amrinder Singh Raja Warring vacated the seat earlier this year following his Lok Sabha polls victory in Ludhiana.
Union Minister and BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu attacked Amarinder Singh Warring, accusing him of disrespecting women and reflecting his “petty mindset”.
“I was surprised to hear him (Amrinder) … What is he trying to tell the women? He is saying that his wife (Amrita Warring) wears a ‘surkhi-bindi’ and leaves home at 6 am and comes back at 11 pm. What does this mean?… You have used improper words to give a wrong message… You should apologise to all women. They are agitated with the message you want to give, that women who go out to work are of no other work…This shows your petty mindset…You have made a condemnable statement…,” Bittu said.

Amrita is making her poll debut in the Gidderbaha bypolls, taking on BJP’s Manpreet Singh Badal and Aam Aadmi Party’s Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon.
Bypolls will be held in four assembly seats in Punjab on November 20. Votes will be counted on November 23. The bypolls were necessitated after MLAs representing these assemblies were elected to the Lok Sabha.