NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde has stirred a controversy by saying that BSNL employees are "traitors" who were not willing to work to develop a well-known company.
The BJP leader said that 88,000 employees from the company will be fired as government is going to privatise BSNL.
Hedge made these comments while speaking at an event on August 10 in Kumta region of Karnataka.
However, the BJP leader is not new to controversies.
Earlier in February this year, the former Union minister attacked Mahatma Gandhi by calling the freedom struggle led by him a "drama". He also questioned as to how "such people" come to be called 'Mahatma' in India.
Hedge was also in news when his Twitter account was blocked in April and he accused the microbloging site of taking an "anti-India" stand and acting "with very prejudiced intentions'.
The MP from Uttara Kannada had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the 'digital colonisation' by a a corporate entity.
The government had earlier this year said that it will not go in for selling out or disinvesting state-owned telephone companies BSNL or MTNL and instead has planned for a “revival” of both companies.
With both companies reeling under financial crisis, salaries of employees were delayed, leading to strikes by protesting workers.
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