The Congress on Wednesday reappointed Sam Pitroda as the chairman of the India Overseas Congress, weeks after he resigned from the post following a controversy over his remarks during the Lok Sabha elections.
“Hon’ble Congress President has reappointed Shri Sam Pitroda as Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress with immediate effect,” party general secretary K.C. Venugopal said in a statement.
Pitroda stepped down on May 8 after his controversial analogy to depict India's diversity triggered a political firestorm.
His choice of ethnic and racial identities like Chinese, Arabs, Whites and Africans at a podcast to describe how Indians from different parts of the country look landed the Congress in yet another soup amid the elections.
“We could hold a country together as diverse as India, where people on the east look like Chinese, people on the west look like Arab, people on the north look like white and maybe people on the South look like Africans,” Pitroda had said.
In April, Pitroda’s statements on ‘inheritance tax’ also put the Congress in a fix, with the BJP alleging that the grand old party’s ‘hidden designs’ had been exposed.
