AJMER – Indian Minister lands into trouble after he was caught liveurinating in public near a BJP rally.
A minister from the northern Indian state of Rajasthan courted controversyon Monday after a photograph of him urinating near a wall, very close to aBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) poster, went viral on social media.
Shambhu Singh Khetasar, who is the chairman of Rajasthan State SeedsCorporation, brazenly defended himself urinating publicly near a BJP rallyvenue in Ajmer on Sunday. He said urinating in the open was “an age-oldtradition”, according to reports in Indian media, claiming that urinationalone dosen’t contribute to uncleanliness.
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The minister also dismissed concerns that the spot where he urinated wasclose to the venue for a BJP election rally, which he said was attended byaround 250,000 people. “There was no urinal nearby for kilometres at astretch and I was busy working since morning,” Khatesar told news agencyANI.
