Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and union minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said his comment on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi was made 'off the record' and added that it was being presented by the media in a different light.
"The things that are being shown by the media were something that was said was off the record. People say many kinds of things at home or outside. The way it was presented is a different issue. But If I have hurt anyone's sentiments, including Sonia ji and Rahul ji, I regret what I have said," Singh told ANI.
The BJP leader from Bihar landed himself in another political controversy on Wednesday when he racially targeted the Congress president.
Singh, who was sitting among a group of his supporters in Hajipur, Bihar, jocularly asked whether Sonia's "white skin" had been her ticket to securing the top job in the Congress Party.
Stoking the controversy further, he further queried, "If Rajiv (Gandhi) had married a Nigerian, things would have been different.
