Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena leader has withdrawn his controversial comments wherein he claimed that former PM Indira Gandhi met gangster Karim Lala in Mumbai. Raut said ‘If someone feels my statement hurt Indira Gandhi's image, or someone's feelings, I take it back’. Raut, the Rajya Sabha member added, ‘In the past, I have taken her (Gandhi's) side and argued with people who tried to malign her image. In such cases, some Congress leaders had remained silent’.
During an interview, Raut claimed that ‘Indira Gandhi used to meet Karim Lala in Pydhonie (in south Mumbai)’. Karim Lala was one of the three top underworld dons of Mumbai for over two decades, from the sixties to the early eighties, the other two being Mastan Mirza alias Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar.
After Congress leaders Milind Deora and Sanjay Nirupam criticised Raut and asked him to withdraw his ‘ill-informed’ remarks, the Sena leader initially defended his words, saying he never shied away from praising former PM Indira Gandhi. With the matter escating, the Shiv Sena leader withdrew his comment.
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