In yet another ‘egg on the face moment’, Congress spokesperson, Jaiveer Shergill, on Sunday, used his official Twitter account to throw a joke with casteist slur in it. In the tweet, he shared an image with a joke written on it and wrote, “The three top driving rules in our Punjab (many of us can relate to it)!!” The joke used the word, ‘kan**r’ which is highly derogatory and often used as a slur for those who belong to Schedule Caste.
Almost immediately, netizens called out to his blunder and questioned him for sharing such a joke. One user said that nothing better could be expected from Congress leaders. In contrast, other users called him out for sharing a castist joke casually without considering his position as Supreme Court lawyer or spokesperson of a national political party.
https://twitter.com/SrishtiRajiv/status/1305101872202616833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/IGuruPrakash/status/1305103192397500417?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwShergill later deleted the tweet, but he did not post any apology for using a casteist slur.