'Go Home & Cook': Maharashtra BJP Chief Tells NCP MP Supriya Sule, Draws Flak

Maharashtra BJP Chief Chandrakant Patil on Thursday, 26 May, drew flak for his misogynistic remark asking Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule to "go home and cook" instead of being a politician. Leaders from across party lines called it "distasteful and shameful".

Patel made the remark during a protest in Mumbai over reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in contesting elections.

"Why are you (Sule) even in politics, just go home and cook. Go to Delhi or to a cemetery, but get us the OBC quota. Despite being an MP, how did you not know how to get an appointment with the chief minister?" Patil said in Marathi, about the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader.