Instead of expressing any sort of regret, Congress leader Raja Pateria brazened it out by saying, "It's a fight of ideology. I haven't said those words. I'm a follower of Mahatma Gandhi."
Two factions of Congress workers engaged in fistfishts and attacked each other with sticks when the Bharat Jodo Yatra' of the Uttar Pradesh Congress passed through state's Kaushambi district.
On Sunday, Pateria the former Madhya Pradesh minister, purportedly made the controversial remarks at a meeting of Mandalam Sector presidents organized by the District Congress Committee at Powai Rest House.