Union Minister Suresh Gopi described former PM Indira Gandhi as the “mother of India” and late Congress Chief Minister K Karunakaran as a “courageous administrator”.
The comment by Gopi is sure to rankle the BJP which has been been very critical of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and have slammed her for imposing emergency in 1975.
The BJP leader also called Karnuakaran and Marxist veteran E K Nayanar as his “political gurus”.
Gopi was speaking to reporters after visiting the memorial of Karunakaran, “Murali Mandiram” located in Punkunnam .
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) sole Lok Sabha MP from Kerala, earlier took charge as the Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Tourism .
Soon after assuming the office, Gopi said he would have to study the tourism ministry and the terrain of the country to be able to do justice to his role.
