Union minister Suresh Gopi says remark that ‘Brahmin or Naidu’ should helm tribal affairs misinterpreted
Thiruvananthapuram: Hours after landing in a fresh controversy, Kerala’s lone BJP MP and Union minister Suresh Gopi Sunday withdrew his statement that a Brahmin or Naidu should head the tribal affairs ministry.
On Sunday, in his address for the Kerala BJP unit’s election campaign in Delhi’s Mayur Vihar, the Thrissur MP said it was a curse in India that a person from the tribal community would always be heading the ministry. Gopi said he had, since his nomination as a Rajya Sabha MP in 2016, been requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give him the department.
“It is my dream that a person from the upper caste should be their (tribal community) minister. If there is a minister from the tribal community, he should be appointed for the welfare of the upper caste communities. This reformat...