Mumbai | Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary Jojo Thomas has demanded that BJP should apologize to the people of Kerala by removing Nitesh Rane, who forgot the federalism of the country and called another state as a mini Pakistan and their people as terrorists, from the cabinet immediately.

Minister Nitesh Rane's action of calling Kerala as mini-Pakistan is pure misinformation. Rane, who has insulted a nation and a state as a whole, should not be kept in the cabinet even for a second and should be fired immediately.

Jojo Thomas added that Nitesh Rane has been accused of saying that all Malayalees are terrorists and he has been used to insult religious minorities in the past as well.

Nitesh Rane slammed the people of Kerala for winning Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi with huge majority. Rane should clarify whether Suresh Gopi, who contested as a BJP candidate, also won because of the votes of the terrorists.

Malayalees are the ones who participated in building Mumbai and Maharashtra. Even today lakhs of Malayalees live in different parts of Maharashtra. Is it to them, did Nitesh Rane accuse?

Ravindra Chavan, MLA from Dombivli, who is expected to be the BJP's state president, is the main man responsible for distributing BJP's state membership. He won the election by receiving the votes of the people including Malayalees. Jojo Thomas said that it should be clarified whether he also has the same opinion about the Malayalees.