'Jinnahwadi party': BJP slams Ajoy Kumar's 'Sikkim a neighbouring country' remark; Congress leader hits back

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lashed out at Congress, saying that the opposition party supports the ‘tukde tukde’ of India. The remarks by the saffron brigade come after Congress leader Ajoy Kumar referred to Sikkim as a ‘neighbouring country’, a gaffe he later called ‘a slip of the tongue’.

During a press conference on Tuesday, he referred to the state as a neighbouring country in the same frame alongside Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. However, with the issue snowballing into a controversy, the senior Congress leader on Tuesday apologised, stating it was a slip of the tongue.

"Yesterday, in my press conference on 'SAIL 400 crore scam', when I was speaking on the deteriorating relations with our neighbouring countries, I accidentally took name of a state. For which I sincerely apologise as it was just a slip of tongue," he wrote.