Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (February 4) called Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu a ‘traitor’. There was a huge controversy on this. PM in Rajya Sabha on Thursday Narendra Modi Called this statement of Rahul Gandhi an insult to Sikhs. Ravneet Singh Bittu is currently a minister in the central government. In Modi’s government, he is holding the responsibility as Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways and Food Processing Industries. Bittu is currently a member of Rajya Sabha. He had joined BJP even before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
BJP had given ticket to Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana in the Lok Sabha 2024 elections but he had to face defeat from Congress candidate Amarinder Singh Raja Varar. After this he was elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Before joining BJP, he was in Congress. He had previously been MP from Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat twice in 2014 and 2019. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he became MP from Congress from Anandpur Sahib.
Ravneet Singh Bittu cornered Rahul Gandhi
Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu reacted sharply to the remarks made by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Parliament complex. He alleged on Wednesday (04 February) that Rahul Gandhi was going to physically attack him. Today, even a street goon would not do what Rahul Gandhi did.
Ravneet Singh Bittu’s grandfather was murdered while he was CM.
Ravneet Singh Bittu’s grandfather Beant Singh had been the Chief Minister of Punjab. Beant Singh was murdered on 31 August 1995. In August 1995, there was a bomb blast in the Secretariat Complex in Chandigarh, in which Beant Singh was killed. Dilawar Singh Babbar of the pro-Khalistan organization Babbar Khalsa International had acted as a human bomb. It is said that while being the CM, Beant Singh had taken strict steps to crush Khalistani militancy, due to which there was deep resentment against him among the separatist organizations.