‘India should respect Pakistan, they have nuclear bombs’: Mani Shankar Aiyar causes more embarrassment

After Sam Piroda, it was Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar who caused more embarrassment for the party. Sam Pitroda, who held the post of chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress but later resigned, stoked a major controversy with his remarks during a podcast where he cited ethnic and racial identities like Chinese, Africans, Arabs and Whites to describe the physical appearance of Indians from different parts of the country.