Samajwadi Party MP Stirs Controversy After Referring To Castes Of IAF's Vyomika Singh, AK Bharti

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 20:13 IST

Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav said Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and Air Marshall AK Bharti would person been abused if their castes were known.

Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Ram Gopal Yadav stoked caller contention by making remarks connected apical IAF personnel. (IMAGE: PTI)

Samajwadi Party’s Lok Sabha parliamentarian from Sambhal Ram Gopal Yadav stoked caller contention connected Thursday talking astir the caste of Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, who became the look of Operation Sindoor and Air Marshall AK Bharti, the Director General of Operations successful the Indian Air Force.

Both of them caught nationalist attraction with their crisp property briefings and for their debunking of Pakistan propaganda. However, Yadav’s remarks connected their caste person led galore to rise questions connected societal media regarding wherefore these officers of the Indian Army are seen done a casteist lens.

“They didn’t adjacent cognize who Vyomika Singh was oregon what her caste is, nor did they cognize astir Air Marshal AK Bharti. Otherwise, they would’ve hurled abuses astatine them too. Let maine archer you — Vyomika Singh is simply a ‘Jatav Chamar’ from Haryana, and Air Marshal AK Bharti is simply a Yadav from Purnia. All 3 were from the PDA segment. One was abused due to the fact that they thought she was Muslim, 1 was thought to beryllium Rajput, truthful thing was said, and astir the other, they person nary information," Yadav said.

The remarks travel days aft Madhya Pradesh Tribal Affairs Minister Vijay Shah made arguable remarks regarding different look of Operation Sindoor – Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.

Talking astir Operation Sindoor, Vijay Shah, connected Monday, had said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent a “sister from the aforesaid community" arsenic those successful Pakistan to avenge the April 22 panic onslaught successful Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

“PM Modi is striving for the society. Those who widowed our daughters (in Pahalgam), we sent a sister of their ain to thatch them a lesson," Shah had said.

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