New Delhi:

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Giriraj Singh on Tuesday rejected reports appearing in the media of him crying before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seeking forgiveness for his recent racist remarks against Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi.

He said that he had had no meeting with the Prime Minister, and questioned as to who saw him crying at that reported meeting.

He said and asked, "I had no meeting with the PM and who said I cried? Who saw?"

Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday invited wrath from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This comes a day after Giriraj expressed regret in Lok Sabha for his racist remarks against Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

Sources also revealed that Girirak Singh broke down after being rebuked by PM Modi

However, when asked about the reprimanding, Giriraj Singh denied and maintained that nothing of such sort has happened.

The minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises was under fire for his racist barb at Gandhi asking whether Congress would have accepted her leadership had she not been white-skinned.

“Had Rajiv Gandhi married a Nigerian woman and if she was not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have then accepted her (Sonia’s) leadership,” he had said on March 31.

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