Bangalore: BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje found herself at the receiving end for making sleezy comment referring to Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao’s marriage to wife Tabassum. Karandalaje had made the comment while reacting to chief minister Siddaramaiah’s remark asking BJP leaders to marry their kids off to Dalits.

Shobha had sought to know why Dinesh has not married a Dalit. She also said that everybody knows whom Dinesh has married, while participating in a protest held by the BJP in the communally torn Dakshina Kannada district recently.

Earlier, the chief minister had chided the BJP leaders saying the social disparity between the two castes could not be lessened by visits to Dalit houses and asked them to marry their kids to Dalits if they were concerned about their upkeep.

Taking strong exception to Karandlaje’s remarks, Tabassum on Wednesday posted on her Facebook page “It is no secret that I was born a Muslim and my husband Mr Dinesh Gundu Rao, a Brahmin. We have been happily married for over two decades now…neither of us has converted…respecting all religion is a practice followed by us…we represent the unity in diversity that India stands for…As a homemaker and a mother of two daughters, I take strong umbrage to Ms Karandlaje tresspassing into our private lives for her narrow political gains…It is unfortunate that a leader of Ms Karandlaje’s stature has stooped to such levels.”

Condemning her comments on their personal lives Dinesh advised Shobha to get married. “I got married in 1994. Everybody knows whom I have married…May be she is still unmarried. I think she (Shobha) still has a chance to marry somebody,” he stated.

Further he said that the BJP having realized that they won’t come to power in the upcoming assembly elections are resorting to such low level politics. They are trying to create a divide in the society on the basis of religion he further alleged.