'Greedy' Jagdambika Pal's exit will help Congress: Salman Khurshid

KANPUR: Union external affairs minister Salman Khurshid has done it again. On Saturday, he fired a salvo on his one-time colleague Jagdambika Pal by calling him 'Jahan jahan par 'maal', wahan Jagdambika Pal...', during his visit to Pitaura, his native village in Farrukhabad.
Salman Khurshid, is a sitting MP from Farrukhabad while Jagdambika Pal, an MP from Dumariyaganj, who resigned from the Congress as well as from Lok Sabha on Friday.
Earlier, he had termed Bharatiya Janata party's prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as 'napunsak' (impotent) which was strongly disapproved by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Describing Jagdambika Pal as 'greedy', Union minister Salman Khurshid said, "Congress didn't gain anything from him when he was in the party. So there's no question of loss either. But yes, his resignation is certainly going to help Congress."
On February 26, without taking the name of Narendra Modi, Salman Khurshid had described him as 'napunsak' (impotent) and asked why a man who aspires to be the prime minister of the country could not do anything during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The remark invited a sharp criticism from the BJP, besides subsequent disapproval by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who reacted sharply on February 27, and disapproved of Khurshid's comments against the Gujarat chief minister.
However, the external affairs minister had been insisting that there was nothing wrong in the comment against Modi as as there was no other appropriate word to describe him in the context of the of post-Godhra riots in 2002.