If Sonia Gandhi wasn't white, would Congress have accepted her: BJP MP Giriraj Singh

BJP MP Giriraj Singh targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a racist remark, questioning whether the party would have accepted her as its chief if the colour of her skin had not been white. “Rajiv Gandhi koi Nigerian lady se vivah kiye hote, gori chamra na hota to kya Congress party uska netritiva sweekarti kya? (If Rajiv Gandhi had married some Nigerian lady, if she wasn't white, would the Congress party have given her its leadership?)” Singh was heard saying in footage aired by a TV news channel. Singh, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Nawada in Bihar, has courted controversy with his comments in the past too.