Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Narendra Taneja did his bit to further alienate the party from south India.
On Friday, while appearing on a talk show, Taneja had made a bizarre comparison between north and south India, saying it was the former which shed more tears when Bollywood actor Sridevi died last month.
Taneja had appeared on a talk show on
CNN-News18 to debate the central government's recommendations to the 15th finance commission. The government had said distribution of central funds to individual states must take place as per the 2011 Census and not the 1971 Census, as was hitherto the norm.
South Indian states had raised objections to this, saying it would reduce their share of funds. But when Taneja was asked about this and was asked if their grievances were genuine, he said there is no North-South divide, and called it the creation of the Congress party.
@manlion @kvpak @itachii
Next these North Indians will claim that south Indian food and movies are more popular in North. So North India is justified in economically exploiting South India. ,
But that's when things got truly bizarre.