Bihar lawyer files case against Sonia Gandhi for 'poor thing' remark about President

PATNA: A Muzaffarpur lawyer has moved court against Congress MP Sonia Gandhi over her "poor thing" remark about President Droupadi Murmu, reports Madan Kumar.

Petitioner Sudhir Ojha, who wants an FIR to be filed against Sonia for "disrespecting" the country's highest constitutional authority, has also named Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the complaint.

Ojha's petition said Sonia's remark was part of a conspiracy. "The petition was admitted in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, and will come up for hearing on Feb 10," said Ojha. After Murmu's joint address to Parliament ahead of the Budget session, Sonia was asked about her hour-long speech. "The President was getting very tired by the end... she could hardly speak, poor thing," the former Congress chief purportedly replied.