MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday took a dig at the Congress, accusing it of stooping to low-level remarks merely to grab headlines after the Opposition party called deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar a “gungi gudiya” (mute doll).Fadnavis said Maharashtra’s political culture did not support attempts to gain publicity through such comments, news agency PTI reported.“Some people are working only to get into the news. They seem to believe in the idiom that ‘even if you become infamous, at least your name is in the headlines’. This is not Maharashtra’s political culture,” he said.Fadnavis was responding to questions about the Maharashtra Congress calling Sunetra Pawar, NCP president and the state’s first woman deputy CM, a “gungi gudiya” (mute doll).“Sunetra Pawar, how many more days will she remain a ‘gungi gudiya’?” the Congress said in a post, along with a video of a press conference attended by Pawar and party colleague Dhananjay Munde.In the video, Munde is seen interrupting a journalist’s question.Pawar did not respond to the question and left the venue after Munde announced that the interaction was over, PTI reported.(With agency inputs)
