Karnal, Feb. 28 -- A day after Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar said there should be no sympathy towards the deportees from United States as they all went illegally, Congress' Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday termed the comment as inhuman and as an insult to the youth.

Khattar, an MP from Karnal seat, was in the town to address a press conference, when he also spoke regarding the recent deportations from the US.

Surjewala criticised Khattar's statement and said that the comment is not only inhumane, but such statements by BJP leaders insult and mock the dreams of our youth, who sold everything and went abroad in search of bread and are being sent back home in handcuffs after losing everything.

The Congress lea...