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Gadkari compares Vivekananda, Dawood IQ
levels; lands in trouble
Monday November 05, 2012 03:13:38 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
BJP chief Nitin Gadkari Monday was in the thick of another
controversy for comparing the IQ level of Swami Vivekananda to
that of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim. Gadkari said he had been
misquoted, but his comment sparked a flurry of reactions in the
virtual world while the Congress demanded an apology from the
party.
In a speech at an award function in Bhopal Sunday, Gadkari said:
"In psychology, we measure the IQ level of people... But it
depends from person to person, in what area they choose to use
their intelligence."
"If we could compare the IQ level of Swami Vivekananda and that of
Dawood Ibrahim, then it could have been almost similar. But their
direction in life is so different. While Vivekananda used it for
nation building, brotherhood and spiritualism, Dawood used it for
destructive purpose, to excel in the crime world," Gadkari said at
the Ojaswini felicitation programme to honour leading women in
various fields.
Cornered by reporters, Gadkari denied having made such a
comparison. "I did not make any comparison between Swami
Vivekananda and Dawood Ibrahim... I said if one used one's
intelligence properly then one could become like Vivekananda, and
vice versa."
"I am being misquoted," the BJP president said.
The Congress said his remark demonstrated the party's "level of
thinking and mentality" and demanded an apology.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, who was till
recently the Congress spokesperson, said Gadkari's remarks were
"yet another manifestation of their (the BJP's) culture and
mentality".
Tewari said that a "mere clarification" would not suffice and the
BJP should "apologise to the people of this country, and
specifically to the thinking people and the leaders of India".
The BJP leaders were hard put trying to explain the comment.
BJP leader Balbir Punj, while denying that Gadkari had likened the
spiritual leader with Dawood, explained that the party chief "was
only stating a fact" that any kind of power, money or intellect,
can be used to purse good or evil things.
Twitter had a flurry of comments, including some unsavoury ones.
"#Gadkari Ji. You go horribly wrong in your assessment on Swami #Vivekananda's
IQ level. Please take some efforts to read his works," Anirban Roy
posted.
Faking News posted: "If you are outraged over Jairam's
Temple/Toilets comment but justify Gadkari's Vivekananda/Dawood
comment, hmm, carry on."
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh had evoked strong reactions from the
BJP when he said the country needs more toilets than temples.
Gadkari has been under attack from anti-corruption activists for
alleged financial impropriety in business dealings in connection
with his Purti Group. Gadkari has denied all charges and the party
has backed him.
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