New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked party MPs to be cautious when making comments in public in the wake of controversial remarks by Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti at a rally in Delhi which triggered an uproar in Parliament.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has planned over 2,000 public meetings in the national capital ahead of the assembly elections in 2015.
Sources said the Prime Minister had disapproved of Jyoti's abusive remarks during a rally in Delhi and asked party MPs to refrain from making any such comments.
Sources said that Modi did not take any name at the party's parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday but made it clear to the minister that her remarks made were not acceptable and she should express regret.
The BJP has roped in all its 325 parliamentarians from the two houses to hold meetings in Delhi, in preparation for the upcoming assembly elections, where Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) appears to be its main challenger.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said meetings will be held every evening from 6 PM to 10 PM. in various areas of Delhi. Every parliamentarian has been asked to give six dates.
"The meetings started from December 1. So far, 225 MPs have given us time and dates," Rudy said.
The public meeting where Jyoti made use of foul language was one of the meetings in the series.
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