Raipur, May 16 -- Chhattisgarh Congress President Deepak Baij on Friday demanded THAT the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) issue an apology over remarks made by its leader Kunwar Vijay Shah, who is also a minister in the Madhya Pradesh government, asking the ruling party to remove him from his post.

He said that the BJP has "fooled people and lied" in the name of nationalism, adding that there was nothing more unfortunate than a sitting minister labelling Colonel Sofiya Qureshi "sister of terrorists".

"The BJP has done nothing but fool people and lie in the name of nationalism. If someone sitting on a constitutional post as a minister calls (Colonel) Sofiya Qureshi 'sister of terrorists', there is nothing more unfortunate than that," Baij t...